Navigating in foreign language texts

Höfundur: Lita Lundquist (Útgáfa: 1)
Navigating in foreign language texts

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Navigating in Foreign Language Texts has been written first and foremost for students in higher education, who are often confronted with the task of reading complex texts in a foreign language in order to acquire information and knowledge. The main idea is that students - like all other human beings- are already, from their native language, familiar with basic principles for processing texts, and only need to be made aware of these principles in order to facilitate their comprehension of foreign language texts also.

The languages dealt with in the book comprise English, German, French and Spanish, all European (and indo-European) languages, which have a lot in common. Another goal is therefore to teach students how to take advantage of features that are shared between their native and foreign language instead of focusing on differences. The book includes an introduction to two e-learning programs: TeXtRay, which makes an -X-ray- of the text, and Nav iLire, which offers exercises in text navigation.

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Útgefandi
Samfundslitteratur
ISBN
9788759326947
Print ISBN
9788759314173
Format
Page Fidelity (PDF)
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Lita Lundquist
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
01/2008
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
10
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I Comprehending texts in a foreign language. Top-down processes
  • Chapter 1: Knowledge, text – and new knowledge
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Text, knowledge and mental models
  • 1.3 Structuring knowledge
  • 1.4 Building up new knowledge frames
  • 1.5 Presenting information
  • Chapter 2: Contextual clues, expectations and text comprehension
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Contextual clues
  • 2.1 Genre
  • 2.2 Discourse
  • 2.3 Text types
  • 2.4 Interpretation program
  • Part II Information in text. Bottom-up processes
  • Chapter 3: Reading texts in a foreign language
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Parsing sentences from left to right
  • 3.3 Using verbs for decoding sentence structure
  • 3.4 Static verbs in academic texts
  • 3.5 Parsing sentences bottom-up and top-down
  • Chapter 4: Words and propositions
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Decoding words
  • 4.3 English – the easy language
  • 4.4 Degree of abstractness and expertness
  • 4.5 Unpacking information
  • 4.6 Nominalisations – said and unsaid
  • 4.7 Foregrounding and backgrounding information
  • 4.8 Relating propositions
  • 4.9 Situating information
  • 4.10 Subjectivity
  • Part III Navigating in foreign language texts – Paths to coherence
  • Chapter 5: Finding paths to coherence
  • 5.1 From words and sentences to text
  • 5.2 Coherence in text
  • 5.3 Paths to coherence
  • 5.4 Coherence and text types
  • 5.5 Summarising reading strategies
  • Chapter 6: Computer-assisted navigation in foreign language texts
  • 6.1 TeXtRay
  • 6.2 NaviLire
  • 6.3 Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Reference grammars
  • Examples: Text material from BLC Course (Business, Languageand Culture), Copenhagen Business School
  • Index