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EAP: generic skills, tasks, and language
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•Edward de Chazal
•Brno March 2014
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 Navigating texts




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 Genre Audience Purpose


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Genre Audience Purpose
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•Text 3
•Genre:
•coursebook    textbook    report    article    summary    review
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•Text 3
•Genre:
•textbook
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•Audience:
•General non-expert readers
•Students – of sociology / media studies / economics / history…
•Teachers – …
•Researchers / academics – …
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•Text 3
•Genre
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•Audience
•Students – of sociology
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•Purpose: What is the main purpose of Text 3? To offer:
•a a description of the development of printing
•b a comparison between the contribution of different countries
•c an evaluation of capitalism and printing
•d an argument for the importance of printed books
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 Context



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Context
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•Where is the text situated?
•Title, date, place, and authorship of publication
•Context – location, time, background, …
•Genre, Audience, Purpose
•Perspectives
•Main point(s) / aim / findings / conclusion
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  Meaning

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Meaning
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•Text 3
•1 Decide whether each sentence (1–3) from Text 3 is a main idea or supporting evidence.
•1 The biggest sixteenth-century printer, Plantain of Antwerp, had twenty-four printing presses and
employed more than a hundred workers.
•2 By 1500, some 20 million volumes had already been printed.
•3 The great cultural impact of printing was that it facilitated the growth of national languages.
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Meaning
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•Text 3
•1 Decide whether each sentence (1–3) from Text 3 is a main idea or supporting evidence.
•1 The biggest sixteenth-century printer, Plantain of Antwerp, had twenty-four printing presses and
employed more than a hundred workers.
•2 By 1500, some 20 million volumes had already been printed.
•3 The great cultural impact of printing was that it facilitated the growth of national languages.
•2 Now identify the sentences in paragraphs 2 and 3 which best express the main idea.
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  Perspective

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historical     ethical
geographical     technological
    scientific    medical    genetic    technical
     sociological      biological      environmental
    ethnographic     religious    social     linguistic
  economic     financial    educational    political
    behavioural      psychological      commercial
     ideological     ecological     legal    chemical
    logical     artistic    musical    cultural
   intellectual    moral   military
physical     global

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   Reflection

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   Reflective reading questions
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•   Generic questions
• How has this text contributed to my understanding of the topic?
• How might this text be interpreted in my own culture?
• Can I make any predictions based on the information in the text?
• What can I take away from this text?
• How can I use aspects of the text (content / organization /
• structure / language) in my own writing?
• What language have I learned?
• What is my personal response to the text?
• What can I read next?
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 Materials

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  Scaffolding   Staging   Support

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Language
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•Complete the text using words from the table
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•Fulcher and Scott (2007) offer a brief 1 __________ of printing from the production of the first
book in China in 868 to the widespread impact of printing in the sixteenth century. They
2__________ that it was capitalism which enabled the expansion and commercialization of printing on
a large scale. Other writers (e.g. Smith 2011) provide a useful 3 __________ of the development of
printing between Europe and Asia. A more 4 __________ approach is taken by Myers and Frank (2010),
who assess the impact of printing on different communities in Europe.
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