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Alan Mountford, "English in Agriculture (English in Focus)"

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Alan Mountford, "English in Agriculture (English in Focus)"

Alan Mountford, "English in Agriculture (English in Focus)"
Publisher: OUP | 1995 | ISBN: 0194375145 | English | PDF | 113 pages | 19.99 Mb

This title includes the following features: It focuses on the particular ways English is used for communication in agriculture.; It helps students develop techniques of reading, and provides them with a guide for their own writing.

The aim of the English in Focus series is to develop in students who are entering higher education an ability to handle the kind of written English that they will be concerned with as an integral part of their specialist subjects. The approach that has been taken is one which recognizes that learning a language is not merely a matter of learning sentence patterns and vocabulary but must also involve an understanding of how people use these linguistic forms in order to communicate. The purpose is to make students aware of the way English is used in written communication, and thereby to help them develop techniques of reading and to provide them with a guide for their own writing.
The book is based on the belief that intermediate and advanced students who are studying English as a necessary part of their specialist studies need a distinctive type of textbook: one which reflects the nature of the learning problems actually encountered at this stage, and which present the language as an aspect of the subject they are studying. We feel that a textbook directed at students at this level should attempt to do more than simply repeat the formulas in elementary language teaching material. Most courses of English concentrate on teaching the language system and fail to show how this system is used in communication. As a result, students may know about such formal items as affirmative sentences or modal verbs, but not know how these items are put to use in the making of different kinds of statement and in the production of continuous pieces of discourse.

Alan Mountford, "English in Agriculture (English in Focus)"