aula inicial / 2013

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inglês – exigência para o mercado de trabalho

      Reading Strategies

Why is it important to learn English?

• It is the language of business
• It is the language of technology
• It is the language of science
• It is the language of tourism
• It allows people to communicate about a variety of world issues.

1)      What is a text?

A text is a complex entity.

It comprises two main elements:

·         Page layout (graphics, diagrams, illustrations, white space, etc).

·         Internal Organization (titles, subtitles, paragraphs, lexical and grammatical reference, etc).

Cover of the Asian Newsweek from Sept 27, 2006.                    Cover of Newsweek's from January 1, 2007

2)      Reading Strategies –  is a mental process or something we use to facilitate reading interpretation (tools to facilitate the reading process):

·         Previous knowledge (what the reader already knows).

·         Nonverbal information.

·         Cognates.

·         Context.

·         Internal text organization.

Summarize

When reading a text in English, you consider some important textual elements, such as:

 

1.The text origin.

2.The subject of the text (the broader context)

3.The internal structure of the text that varies according to the objective of the text ( to make a description, give instructions, convince the reader of something, tell a story, etc.)

4.The internal organization of the text in terms of the number of paragraphs, titles, sub-titles, repeated words, lexical reference and grammatical reference.

5.The internal context, that is, the parts of a sentence or paragraph that determine the exact meaning of a word used.

6.The order of the words in a sentence and their specific functions ( adjectives – nouns – verbs – adverbs, etc.)

7.The elements of the non-verbal code.

8.The use of cognates.

9.The point of view used in the text, that is, the angle of vision from which the text is written.

Prof. Dudous