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Download full textLemke, J. L. – 1987
One of the greatest obstacles to mastery of science and other analytical genres in school is excessive curricular emphasis on reading and hearing those genres without practice at speaking and writing them. In science, the curriculum tends to insure that only students with privileged social and linguistic backgrounds master the genre structures…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Course Content, Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes
