Academic English

1.

Academic
English

2.

Homework
check

3.

Seminar 4

4.

Speech
Spoken
Written

5.

Main differences
Grammatical
intricacy
Lexical density
Contextualization
Nominalization
Spontaneity
Explicitness
Repetition,
hesitations, and
redundancy

6.

Casual
conversations
Personal
letters
Academic
lectures
Published
academic texts

7.

Spoken texts

8.

Main varieties
LECTURE
SEMINAR
PRESENTATION

9.

Discuss
USES
DIFFERENCES
FEATURES

10.

Written texts

11.

Main varieties
TEXTBOOK
ESSAY
REPORT
ARTICLE

12.

Discuss
USES
DIFFERENCES
FEATURES

13.

Academic
articles

14.

Complexity
Formality
Precision
What is an
academic
article?
Objectivity
Explicitness
Accuracy
Responsibility
Organisation
Planning

15.

Original articles/research articles
Types of
academic
articles
Case studies
Methodologies
Opinion articles
Review articles

16.

Discuss
USES
DIFFERENCES
FEATURES

17.

Connect the titles of the articles with their types.
A) A Review of Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope’s Theory of
Foreign Language Anxiety and the Challenges to the
Theory
1) Case study article
B) An Investigation into the Causes of English Language
Learning Anxiety in Students at AWKUM1
2) Review article
C) Language Anxiety: A Case Study of the Perceptions and
Experiences of Students of English as a Foreign Language in
a Higher Education Institution in the United Arab Emirates
3) Opinion article
D) Foreign Language Anxiety and Achievement: A
Systematic Review
4) Methodology article
E) Measuring Foreign Language Anxiety: Development and
Use of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale
5) Original research article

18.

Connect the titles of the articles with their types.
A) A Review of Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope’s Theory of
Foreign Language Anxiety and the Challenges to the
Theory
1) Case study article
B) An Investigation into the Causes of English Language
Learning Anxiety in Students at AWKUM1
2) Review article
C) Language Anxiety: A Case Study of the Perceptions and
Experiences of Students of English as a Foreign Language in
a Higher Education Institution in the United Arab Emirates
3) Opinion article
D) Foreign Language Anxiety and Achievement: A
Systematic Review
4) Methodology article
E) Measuring Foreign Language Anxiety: Development and
Use of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale
5) Original research article

19.

Anatomy of an academic article
1. Title
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???
5. ???
6. ???
7. ???
8. ???
9. ???

20.

21.

What is the
most effective
way to read
an article?

22.

Homework

23.

Find an academic article and be
ready to present it in class:
Useful websites:
• Its author(s) and title;
• https://scholar.google.com/
• Its year and journal of publication;
• https://www.jstor.org/
• Its type;
• Parts it is comprised of;
• Features of academic writing present
in it;
• Brief outline of its contents.
• https://www.elsevier.com/
• https://eric.ed.gov/
• https://core.ac.uk/
• https://doaj.org/
• https://www.scienceopen.com/
• https://www.semanticscholar.org/