Selection of Relevant Information: a Challenge for Reading EAP Courses
Students show great diffi culty in selecting relevant information in accordance to their reading purpose in our English for Academic Purpose reading classes, revealing problems to distinguish important information from irrelevant information. This diffi culty tends to be more evident when they work...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2011-07-01
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| Series: | The ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/6237 |
| Summary: | Students show great diffi culty in selecting relevant information in accordance to their reading purpose in our English for Academic Purpose reading classes, revealing problems to distinguish important information from irrelevant information. This diffi culty tends to be more evident when they work with longer texts. Therefore, we have developed some materials to help students select relevant information from texts. This article aims at presenting the procedures and decisions underlying the design of our material as well as a sample of the tasks we have elaborated to improve the students’ selectivity and fl exibility skills. |
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| ISSN: | 0102-7077 2318-7115 |