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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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2011-07-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-9e0262bafd64463da9bb6ec3c96a39d52022-12-21T23:44:41ZengPontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloThe ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes0102-70772318-71152011-07-013114766Selection of Relevant Information: a Challenge for Reading EAP CoursesAngela Cristina de Oliveira Corte0Cynthia Regina Fischer1Universidade de São Paulo-FFLCH-Centro de Línguas/Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial, São Paulo, BrasilInstituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo/Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo-GEALIN/Centro Universitário da FECAP - Fundação Escola de Comércio Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, BrasilStudents 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.https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/6237EAPreadingselectivitymaterial development |
| spellingShingle | Angela Cristina de Oliveira Corte Cynthia Regina Fischer Selection of Relevant Information: a Challenge for Reading EAP Courses The ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes EAP reading selectivity material development |
| title | Selection of Relevant Information: a Challenge for Reading EAP Courses |
| title_full | Selection of Relevant Information: a Challenge for Reading EAP Courses |
| title_fullStr | Selection of Relevant Information: a Challenge for Reading EAP Courses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Selection of Relevant Information: a Challenge for Reading EAP Courses |
| title_short | Selection of Relevant Information: a Challenge for Reading EAP Courses |
| title_sort | selection of relevant information a challenge for reading eap courses |
| topic | EAP reading selectivity material development |
| url | https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/6237 |
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