Academic competence for technical reading in English as a foreign language

Description

This project offers a strategy-based curriculum designed to increase academic competence in technical reading for Taiwanese students of English as a foreign language. Strategies include acquiring specialized vocabulary words, enhancing background knowledge, and increasing metacognitive awareness.

Links & Downloads

1. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2162
2. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3163&context=etd-project

Tags

Intercultural communication

Communication of technical information

Reading comprehension

First and Second Language Acquisition

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:csusb.edu/oai:scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu:etd-project-3163
Date	01 January 2003
Creators	Chen, Mei-Fen
Publisher	CSUSB ScholarWorks
Source Sets	California State University San Bernardino
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Theses Digitization Project