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UNIVERSIDAD DEL ACONCAGUAESCUELA SUPERIOR DE LENGUAS EXTRANJERAS

Licenciatura en Ingls CCC 2014

Comprensin y Produccin de Textos en Lengua Inglesa I

OBJETIVOS

Desarrollar la competencia comunicativa acadmica escrita y oral.

Conocer las caractersticas especficas de los gneros de la ciencia.

Dominar las convenciones encontradas en textos acadmicos.

Desarrollar un sentido de la existencia de una comunidad socio-retrica con sus propias

reglas y estrategias. Explorar el campo del anlisis del gnero dentro de la escuela de Ingls con Fines

Especficos.

CONTENIDOS

Module 1: A Genre Approach to Academic Writing

The academic discourse community and its texts. ESP. Genre in linguistics. Genres and the

social forces shaping them. Genre pedagogy. Homely and academic texts. Corpus linguistics.

Rhetorical consciousness-raising. Schematic structure/Stages/Movesanalysis.

Hyland, K. (2006).English for academic purposes:An advanced resource book. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Hyland, K. (2013). Writing in the university: education, knowledge and reputation. Language Teaching46.1:

5370.

Swales, J. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge

University Press.

Module 2:

The role of English in research. The Research Article (RA) in English: its history and

construction. Overall organisation. The Abstract as a stand-alone genre. The IMRD structure.

Introduction. Methods. Results & Discussion. Linguistic resources for conversing with the

scientific/academic community: Titles, politeness strategies, hedging, tense and voice,

nominalisation, in-text citations, formulaic language. Citing references in APA style.

http://mamidala.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/making-your-research-paper-discoverable-title-plays-the-winning-

trick/(last accessed 15 September 2014)

Hyland, K. (2001). Humble servants of the discipline? Self-mention in research articles.English for specificpurposes20(3): 207-226.

Salager-Meyer, F. (1994). Hedges and textual communicative function in medical English written discourse.

English for Specific Purposes13(2), 149-171.

Samraj, Betty. (2002). Introductions in research articles: Variations across disciplines. English for Specific

Purposes 21: 117.

Soler V. (2007). Writing titles in science: an exploratory study.English for Specific Purposes26: 90102

Swales, J. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press.

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Module 3:The Abstract. Move analysis. Compulsory vs. optional moves. Abstracts in linguistics and

other disciplines. Conference abstracts

Bittencourt Dos Santos, Mauro. (1996). The textual organization of research paper abstracts inapplied linguistics. Text16 (4): 481499.

Swales, J. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge

University Press.Swales, J. & Feak, C. (2009). Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts. Michigan, US: University of Michigan

Press.

Module 4:

The Abstract. Writing abstracts in English. Differences with Spanish resmenes.