In this work, we propose a classifi cation and description of specialized texts, defined as specifi c communicative registers, which address topics of the specialty domain and have rhetorical conventions of each discipline. Within the framework of Text-Typology Theory and genre analysis we will analyze a corpus composed of fi fteen written texts, from the scientifi c-academic fi eld of Engineering and Environmental Sciences that are used in courses of English for Specifi c Purposes at National University of Comahue. This paper attempts to highlight those micro and macro-structural elements that are necessary to identify for the teaching of English for Specifi c Purposes. First, we will briefl y describe reading courses at university and then continue with the theoretical framework of this work. We will then proceed with a detailed description of specialized texts, taking into account the type of participants and scope of use, the text-type and genre, the linguistic resources used to convey the information. We will conclude that applying texttype typologies to a methodological approach will contribute to an adequate selection and sequencing of the teaching material and will help articulate previous studies of genre analysis with the teaching of a foreign language.
]]>This paper is part of the Research Project “Differences and contact points between oral didactic and written discourse in French and English and its relationship with the teaching of foreign languages”. We present a descriptive and exploratory study of cer-tain linguistic or phraseological routines that are present in the scientific-academic, peda-gogic, oral discourse, particularly in the following genres: master class and lectures in the French language. At a formal level, these constructions constitute recurrent statements Revue de la SAPFESU · Año XXXVIII, Número 43, 2020 · [62-72]63that at a semantic level fulfill different functions. Therefore, we have gathered a corpus of three master classes and four lectures in the French language. We have adopted as a reference theoretical framework the multidimensional approach by Ciapuscio and Kugel (2002).
]]>This article describes a teaching experience with translation students that involves the use of fictional TV series and documentaries. First, there is a description of the activities, organised in Audiomedial Projects (AMPs). These projects’ main objective is to encourage the critical analysis of language use from the points of view of syntax, lexis, rhetoric, discourse analysis and translation. Another objective of the AMPs is to foster exposure to authentic communicative situations, in which register and lexico-grammatical choices tend to be dissimilar to those taught in textbooks. AMPs also aim to favour collaborative teamwork, and to develop students’ cognitive and metacognitive skills. The theoretical and pedagogical rationale underlying AMPs includes task-based learning and the teaching of ESP (English for Specific Purposes), as they combine language acquisition and recycling with some tenets of Translation Studies (discipline-specific knowledge) and the development of translation competence (as defined by PACTE 2002). Finally, the results of the use of AMPs in the last three years are presented and briefly analysed.
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