This document discusses strategies for teaching English for academic purposes. It identifies the best strategies as open dialogue, communicative exercises, role games, and word puzzles. These strategies aim to improve language skills like vocabulary and speaking. Materials that are recommended include the language laboratory, compact disks, tape recorders, multimedia materials, games, songs, and jigsaw puzzles. Specific strategies discussed for academic reading include using newspapers, newscasts, journals, English karaoke, and strategies for academic reading. The purpose is to choose strategies that develop the communication skills needed to achieve competence in English for academic environments.

1. TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
COLLABORATIVE WORK 1
STUDENTS:
CLAUDIA VERONICA VALLEJO
LISETH PAOLA ANDRADE
CATHERINE ELIZABETH CABRERA
LILIANA CAROLINA PUENGUENAN COLIMBA
JOSE ELIAS YELA
GROUP: 8
TUTOR
JULIO CESAR TULANDE
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA –UNAD
BACHELOR IN ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE
SCHOOL ECEDU
JULY, 2016

2. • The purpose of this booklet is to present the best strategies that can
be used in the academic environment, when it comes to learning
and teaching in other languages, in this case in English, focused or
English for specific purposes, these strategies can be maybe used
as tools for studying and solving the main problem that arises when
speaking in the same, which results in implementing guidelines to
improve and achieve this.
• Improve language, vocabulary and speech mainly, it is what is
needed to express ideas, to communicate in these environments, as
many of the resources used academically require the acquisition of
communicative competence.
• This being very important factor we chose the strategies that we
think are the most useful, to develop communication skills
necessary and appropriate to achieve in this language.

3. SPEAKING FOR
ACADEMIC
PURPOSES

4. BEST STRATEGIES
• Open dialogue
• Communicative
exercises
• Role games
• Word puzzles

5. • By listening to taped lectures, students can be
sensitized to the importance of questions.
• Opportunities to ask questions and to give new
information.
• Discution about topic.
• Exchanges of views are encouraged or expected

6. THE BEST MATERIALS
• LANGUAGE LABORATORY: Is a special room where electronic
facilities are installed for use in learning foreign languages
• COMPACT DISK: We can find many educational games, movies with
subtitles, interactive stories, etc.
• THE TAPE-RECORDER: Encourage english students to gain
knowledge, develop attitudes and learn listening and speaking skill.
• MULTIMEDIA MATERIAL: With the technology we can find a lot of
tools that help to improve the comunication in english for our
students
• GAMES DIDACTISC: relax to the student and they learn playing
• SONGS: for relax and low the filters in the students
• JIGSAW PUZZLE: Alternatively, it can give you a problem to solve it,
for example the best route for a prisoner escape. They can only
solve the problem by gathering all your information with peers.

7. Some materials
TAPE RECORDER
COMPACT DISK
TV AND
VIDEO
JIGSAW PUZZLE

8. DIDACTICS GAMES

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Newspapers:
The student develops ability to identify
grammar among other knowledge, can
strengthen their relationship reading
the language and acquire knowledge of
new verbs, modal, structures,
contractions or cultural idioms and
understand the meaning of sentences,
give understanding to the readings, no
doubt is a great option to help students
understand very well the foreign
language.

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Newscasts
News rather contribute to the
development of the student
listening, understanding of
sentences in the development
of communication and
information of different events,
accents from different regions
are also very important to
identify and obtain a fluid
understanding.

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Journals
This tool is motivating for students
because they know about issues
that are for them so striking for
famous example singers, technology,
movies, etc. that attract the student
invites him to develop and answer
questions they have about certain
issues and get knowledge more
practice in the English language.

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Singing in English (English Karaoke):
English pronunciation is much more
complicated to learn the pronunciation
of Spanish, so for example the vowels
in English can have what we call "long"
or sounds "short" sounds. When a
vowel is a "long" sound, the vowel
"says his name" (pronounced like the
name of the letter), so this practice
helps a lot in the pronunciation of
students, phonics is important in the
development of language to identify
words, verbal contractions, to identify
main ideas of what is unfolding.

13. STRATEGY OF ACADEMIC
READING

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REFERENCES
• Teaching English for specific purposes unit 2
available in:
http://campus05.unad.edu.co/ecedu04/mod/p
age/view.php?id=959