| Title: | Decoding Technical Texts: Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills to Civil Engineering Students |
| Author: | Anca-Margareta Bunea |
| Publication: | Language and Literature – European Landmarks of Identity, 12, p. 358-363 |
| p-ISSN: | 1843-1577 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din Pitești |
| Place: | Pitești |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | As the scientific and technical information is mainly transmitted through the written document, it is the text that will represent the main didactic support in developing a technical terminology lesson. Therefore, its approach should lead progressively to acquiring the reading comprehension skills. In teaching technical English reading skills where the cognitive function of language is the research itself, one should see the text as both a source of information and a model of producing language, its didactic exploitation having its basis on these two essential features. Reading a technical text should involve the student in a complexity of habits which have been already attained in their mother tongue when they decoded messages above the resources of a language (lexical and semantic levels or even at the syntax one). For that reason, the purpose of the reading activity is to get the wanted information in a quick and exact manner. In attaining this purpose, the teacher needs to use motivational strategies following mainly the student’s multifarious involvement during the lesson. |
| Key words: | technical English, active learning, creativity |
| Language: | English |
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