The design and implementation of an English for research publication purposes courseA corpus-based genre-analytic pedagogical intervention

  1. Pedro Martín Martín 1
  2. Sally Burgess 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

Revista:
LFE: Revista de lenguas para fines específicos

ISSN: 1133-1127

Año de publicación: 2021

Volumen: 27

Número: 2

Páginas: 91-108

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.20420/RLFE.2021.438 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: LFE: Revista de lenguas para fines específicos

Resumen

La presión sobre los académicos que usan el inglés como segunda lengua para que publiquen sus investigaciones en revistas en inglés se ha extendido recientemente a los estudiantes de posgrado inscritos en programas de doctorado. Sin embargo, en las instituciones de educación superior de todo el mundo, se ofrecen pocos cursos de formación en English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) con el objetivo de proporcionar a los estudiantes estrategias retóricas efectivas que podrían facilitarles la integración en sus comunidades disciplinarias. En este artículo presentamos el diseño e implementación de un curso de formación en ERPP, dirigido a estudiantes de doctorado en Artes y Humanidades, que se basa en la recopilación previa de un corpus de artículos de investigación seleccionados por los mismos participantes, un análisis de género de los textos y un enfoque crítico-pragmático para la enseñanza de las características socioculturales que sustentan todo el proceso de publicación de la propia investigación. Basándonos en el análisis de las respuestas a un cuestionario de evaluación del curso, también pretendemos indagar en las percepciones de los participantes en relación con la intervención pedagógica. Los resultados indican que, mediante la participación activa en el curso, los estudiantes reconocen haber adquirido una mayor comprensión del contexto socio-pragmático relacionado con el proceso de publicación, incluyendo un mayor entendimiento de las estructuras retóricas predominantes en los artículos de investigación y resúmenes, de las prácticas académicas prevalentes a nivel nacional e internacional, y de la potencial variación de estrategias comunicativas en sus áreas disciplinarias específicas.

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