Leer y escribir suele ser un problema para muchos alumnos universitarios. Estudian, pero tienen dificultades para comunicar a sus evaluadores lo que saben. Contestan cuando se les pregunta, pero las respuestas no satisfacen a los docentes. Los profesores prestan atención a partes de los textos que los estudiantes ponderaron irrelevantes. Los alumnos privilegian lo que los profesores dejan de lado. Parece que falta ponerse de acuerdo sobre qué se exige. Las instituciones en las que se difunden conocimientos oficialmente tienen modos propios de comunicación. La universidad es una de esas instituciones. Los ingresantes necesitan iniciarse específica y sistemáticamente de esos modos tradicionales de comunicación para alcanzar logros satisfactorios en el ámbito universitario. Es ese un aprendizaje que debe, en verdad, comenzar antes, en los estudios previos con los que cada uno accede a la totalidad. En este manual se presenta una estrategia para ayudar a leer y escribir como se demanda en la universidad. Es una estrategia que se despliega (y se ha puesto a prueba) en los talleres de lectura y escritura de Semiología (cátedra de la profesora Elvira Arnoux del Ciclo Básico Común de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. En cada capítulo de este manual se explican conceptos no sólo para orientar la disposición que para la lectura y la escritura deberían tener los alumnos sino también para guiar la organización de esas mismas actividades. Cada sección incluye actividades de taller en las que se recuperan esos conceptos para entrenar habilidades de lectura y escritura universitarias: cómo delimitar un texto, cómo reconocerlo, cómo jerarquizar su información, cómo explicar un concepto, cómo argumentar una hipótesis, cómo escribir un informe, cómo elaborar una monografía. El libro cierra con una serie de anexos de apoyo (revisión de contenidos que se suelen dar por ya adquiridos en la escolaridad anterior) al progreso de esas habilidades.

INTRODUCTION 5 TO BEGIN WITH, A BASIC AND ESSENTIAL IDEA 5 TO FOLLOW: YOU MUST HAVE A METHOD 7 TO ADVANCE STEP BY STEP 11 WHY YOU SHOULD NOT STUDY BY HEART 30 THE PQRST METHOD 32 AND IF I DIDN'T READ, WHAT DO I DO IN CLASS? 44 HOW TO STUDY GENERAL REVIEW 56 TO END AS WE BEGAN, A BASIC AND ESSENTIAL IDEA 59 BIBLIOGRAPHY 64

Study techniques. Types of reading / types of text / what is key and what is complementary in an academic text summarizing: what it is - what it is not / summaries for oneself or for others / four rules of thumb. Paratext, context and cotext. Characteristics of good writing / Actions of reading and writing study texts. How to highlight key ideas: frames / how to organize lists, classifications or definitions: frames / bibliographic references and citations / concept maps.

"Parodi and his collaborators, in this inspiring volume, provide an insightful model for the analysis of construction, interpretation and use of academic and professional genres." Vijay K. Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong --Book Jacket.

The central issue of this volume is how to meet the linguistic and academic needs of the increasing numbers of English learners (ELs). At the center of educational turns is the role of school professionals in this Common Core Standards era. Teacher education programs and professional development, or pre-service and in-service programs for teachers of ELs, are currently being reframed to reflect the new demands placed on all teachers in light of the new standards. The expectation is that ELs can learn, and their teachers possess the expertise to teach, both discipline content and academic English at the same time. The large numbers of ELs across the country have created a wide gap between what teachers have been trained to do and the skills they need to teach and reach them effectively. This practical handbook brings together research, policy and practice on teacher effectiveness, pre-service and in-service programs in the context of student linguistic and cultural diversity. Key features include: • Clearly articulated teacher training and professional development programs; • Coverage of Common Core curriculum and a variety of instructional programs and practices with research-based tools to implement them; and, • Policies to equitably and effectively prepare ELs academically and linguistically.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Hispanic applied linguistics, allowing students to understand the field from a variety of perspectives and offering insight into the ever-growing number of professional opportunies afforded to Spanish language program graduates. The goal of this book is to re-contextualize the notion of applied linguistics as simply the application of theoretical linguistic concepts to practical settings and to consider it as its own field that addresses language-based issues and problems in a real-world context. The book is organized into five parts: 1) perspectives on learning Spanish 2) issues and environments in Spanish teaching 3) Spanish in the professions 4) the discourses of Spanish and 5) social and political contexts for Spanish. The book’s all-inclusive coverage gives students the theoretical and sociocultural context for study in Hispanic applied linguistics while offering practical information on its application in the professional sector.