Reading strategies and challenges faced by biology major students in the Amazon region: the case of UFPA
This paper analyzes strategies and difficulties biology students face in the process of reading scientific articles in English. We employ conceptions about translation, reading, and foreign language teaching. Our method includes the application of a questionnaire and interviews in a biology class of...
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Asociación de Docentes de Ciencias Biológicas de la Argentina
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/revistaadbia/article/view/42950 |
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| Sumario: | This paper analyzes strategies and difficulties biology students face in the process of reading scientific articles in English. We employ conceptions about translation, reading, and foreign language teaching. Our method includes the application of a questionnaire and interviews in a biology class of the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), content analysis, and practical reading of an article in the abovementioned area by the students, in relation to which we elaborate questions parameterized according to Barrett’s taxonomy. Results show that the idea of a “global” English exerts pressure so that it imposes itself (in a limiting way) within the university context, despite the lack of previous training. When students use machine translation as a reading strategy, for example, they do so from a problematic conception of language and translation. |
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