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Title: Specialized Content Material.
Language: English
Authors: Labbe, Raul, Varas, Amanda
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 25
Publication Date: 1993
Intended Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Document Type: Reports - Descriptive
Speeches/Meeting Papers
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Curriculum Design, Engineering Education, English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Development, Instructional Materials, Reading Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Sentence Structure, Transformational Generative Grammar
Geographic Terms: Chile
Abstract: A computer-based set of instructional materials, designed to teach English second-language reading skills to university-level engineering students, is described and its development is outlined. The programmed units are designed to be used individually on the computer. The stages of software development included: selection of sentence units from different registers in engineering, with attention to frequency and density of lexical items and syntax; item analysis; analysis of theoretical support in the research on syntax, semantics, written discourse, and psychology; and creation and validation of instructional units. A brief analysis is given of the unique nature of noun phrases in specialized text, which have significantly more pre- and post-modifiers clustering around nuclei than equivalent phrases in nonspecialized texts. Treatment of this complex phenomenon in the instructional design is discussed, using the approach of generative transformational grammar. (MSE)
Notes: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (27th, Atlanta, GA, April 13-17, 1993).
Journal Code: RIEMAR1995
Entry Date: 1995
Accession Number: ED375652
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