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以“学术素养”为核心的地学专业研究生英语教学的实践探索The English Teaching Practice Focused on Academic Literacy for Graduate Students Majoring in Geology

Academic literacy; Graduate Students Majoring in Geology; English teaching

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Along with the higher English levels of Chinese graduate students and their changing learning needs, growing importance is attached to the academic English course for graduate students. The article introduces the teaching practice and exploration of the author and her team about how to improve the academic literacy of the graduate students major in geology through English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses. Differing from the traditional skill-centered teaching mode, the course is based on the need analysis of students and oriented towards the cultivation of academic literacy. The teachers integrate disciplinary contexts into teaching content and instruct students to discuss and summarize the research paradigm, discourse structure and rhetoric in geology, thus help students to learn and grasp the way to construct and communicate the disciplinary knowledge. The simulated academic communicative activities in class not only emphasize the leading role of learners in EAP learning but also offer learners opportunities to apply theory into practice.