This booklet is designed for freshmen engineering students who have to get prepared themselves for fulfilling the demands of academic texts comprehension. It is divided into units which involve four main sections that include understanding oral discourse or listening activity, understanding a text, speaking practice and writing. The first section is focused mainly on the listening comprehension skill which is based on the identification of the speech acts that characterize the scientific discourse and also on the work in the semantic level. Reading Practice deals with language improvement...

Our objective in this book is to offer texts and exercises suitable for students to link their knowledge about speech acts, rhetorical and pragmatic patterns, features of scientific discourse and reading and communicative skills and apply them to the comprehension and integration of information concerning with a certain scientific topic. Our objective, as professors, is to train our students for applying analytical, comparative, evaluative and critical reading from a systemic-pragmatic approach. Hence the texts included in the book have been selected deliberately as they are concerned with...

Want to communicate with English speaking people? Want to know how to operate the English grammatical patterns? If you answer yes to any of these questions I invite you to work hard with the material presented. This work is aimed at first year students of engineering and architecture. In previous investigations it has been confirmed that students who enter higher education deficiencies, especially in the knowledge of some grammatical content. That is why the main objective of this material is to help eliminate these shortcomings through a series of exercises aimed at the higher occurrence...

This booklet is designed for sophomore engineering students who have to get prepared themselves for fulfilling the demands of academic texts comprehension. It is divided into four main sections which involve understanding oral discourse or listening activity, understanding a text, speaking practice and writing. The first section is focused mainly on the listening comprehension skill which is based on the identification of the speech acts that characterize the scientific discourse and also on the work in the semantic level. Understanding a text deals with language improvement exercises,...