Reading Strategies for Computing

Authors

Sara Oliveira
Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26512/8523004815

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Ensino da língua inglesa

Synopsis

Reading Strategies for Computing is suitable for Brazilian students of computing, professionals or trainee professionals at intermediate or upperintermediate levels who need to develop their reading skills for study or professional purposes.
The course book consists of 14 units covering a wide range of strategies needed for effective and efficient reading. Attention is concentrated on reading skills, content, vocabulary acquisition and terminology.

Chapters

  • To the teachers
  • To the students
  • Units and Techniques
  • Unit 1 To Start You Reading
  • Unit 2 Cognates
  • Unit 3 Contextual Guessing
  • Unit 4 Word Formation: Prefixes
  • Unit 5 Word Formation: Suffixes
  • Unit 6 Compounds
  • Unit 7 Comparing and Contrasting
  • Unit 8 Cohesion and Coherence
  • Unit 9 Linking Words
  • Unit 10 Defining
  • Unit 11 Interactivity: Writer-Text-Reader
  • Unit 12 Processes
  • Unit 13 Instructions
  • Unit 14 Classifying
  • Appendix 1 Glossary of Technical Terms
  • Appendix 2 PCMCIA - Glossary of Acronyms
  • Bibliography

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Author Biography

Sara Oliveira, Universidade de Brasília (UnB)

Experienced teacher of English for Specific Purposes at the University of Brasilia where she also teaches writing and translation. She is the author of the successful Estratégias de Leitura para Inglês Instrumental.

 

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Published

July 11, 2023

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Copyright (c) 1998 Sara Oliveira

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Details about this monograph

ISBN-10 (02)

85-230-0481-5

Publication date (01)

1999