Aula 1 – What are we doing here?

On our first meeting we sort of tried to answer the question above. We then, came to the following conclusions, as stated by the pictures here.


Aula 2 – If it is about writing…

CEFR and CEFR (British Council Br)

How to mark writing

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Aula 3 – Sorry, it will rain

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Aula 4 – Genre foundations


Aula 5 – Genre and language

References


Aula 6 – Text summarization

eyeglasses on top of bookpage

What is summarization?

What is the importance/relevance of summarization?

quotes and references

“summarization training had a significant effect on the recall of major information in a studying task, but did not significantly affect recall of minor information. This finding suggests that the summarization training may have taught students to concentrate on major information and to disregard less
important information”.

Summarization in English as a Foreign Language: A Study Comparing L2 Summary Performances to Summarizer’s L2 Vocabulary Size and L1 Summarizing Skill

“English proficiency had a very small effect on the reading and writing strategies used in summarization”.

The role of reading and writing in summarization as an integrated task