READING COMPREHENSION AND WRITTEN PRODUCTION

Reading Comprehension and Written Production journal

Susana Estrada Builes Andrea Restrepo Hernández

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Week 1-2

CEFR Video “Introduction to the Concept of Literacies” Gee, J.P. (2014). An introduction to discourse analysis: Theory and method (4th ed.). Wodak, R. (2011). Language, power and identity. Language Teaching,

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Week 1

1. According to Ruth Wodak’s theory, power over discourse is the ability that someone from a higher position in society has to access publics (Wodak, 2011). Knowing that Rodolfo Hernández made his fortune by entering the social housing construction industry, when he says that “the poor are the best business in the world” he uses Wodak’s term for… 2. When an author, who can be also defined as a user of the language, uses only the linguistic competence to create a position paper, he might not be able to make his ideas clear in a certain context because…

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Week 2

1. Linguistic competence, as proposed by Noam Chomsky, consists of several components that collectively enable a speaker to have a deep understanding of a language's structure and rules. According to it, the component of linguistic competence that is primarily concerned with the correct spelling and written representation of words in a language is... 2. What does communicative competence encompass in the context of language?

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Week 3-5

13 types of texts. How language shapes the way we think Pierre Bourdieu Gee, J.P. (2014). An introduction to discourse analysis: Theory and method (4th ed.). Wodak, R. (2011). Language, power and identity. Language Teaching, 45 (2), 215-233. doi: 10.1017/S026144481100004

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Week 3

1. Read the text and answer based on the article "13 Basic Types of Texts in English" 2. In the video "How language shapes the way we think" by Lera Boroditsky, the key concept that the speaker discussed regarding the relationship between language and thought was...

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Week 4

1. According to Pierre Bourdieu: Theory of Capital, the comment of an influencer who said "The only way to get ahead right now is not to study at the university, there are many other ways." has a predominance in 2. Read the text and answer the question.

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Week 5

1. According to Pierre Bordieu’s theory of capital, the cycle of capital allows an existing capital to transform into others through labor time. The three little pig fable version of Disney of 1933 embodies the values of the Victorian age (when the story was originally written by Joseph Jacobs) of hard work and perseverance. The end of the story has a clear representation of the capital being transformed because... 2. Boroditsky (2018) states that humans use the ability of language to transmit knowledge across minds, a fact that can be also understood from Wodak’s (2011) point of view of the power over discourse, which means that someone that has access to the public by being seen and heard, spreads an idea across humanity. Apple is an American company that has promulgated since 2010 “Apple Security”, which secures people’s data to prevent unauthorized access to it, despite it is known that there are no barriers a hacker couldn’t trespass. Either way, one of the main reasons people still prefers Apple devices is their Security feature because:

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Week 6-8

Origins of Writing Schamdt-Besserat (2008) Origins and Forms of Writing Freire, P., & Macedo, D. (1987). Literacy: Reading the word and the world. Janks, H. (2019). Critical literacy and the importance of reading with and against a text.

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Week 6

1.“To understand different points of view and the ideas of people we disagree with, we have to try to make sense of what they write and where they are coming from” (Janks, 2019). Following this author statement, UPB students would agree with the new University's policy of being a graduation requirement to have a minimum grade in the Saber Pro exam by: 2. The colloquial word “abrirse” in Antioquia is mainly used within negative situations. The meaning of the word is simply “to leave somewhere”, but more specifically in situations where it is appropriate to disappear or when a person commands someone else to leave. Following Freire & Macedo’s statement (1987) of “apprehend the word rather than mechanically memorize it” and Johnson’s statement (2015) of “reading is personal”, someone from another country could include this word in his lexicon by:

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Week 6-8

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Week 7

1. Reading and writing are historically seen as aspects that contribute to the increase of cultural capital as “(...) they had access to a record of accumulated human experiences, interpretations and understandings (Finkelstein & McCleery cited by Johnson, 2015). Some years ago Colombia started to show its concern through statistics that proved colombians don’t read so much compared to other countries. Nonetheless, nowadays people are constantly exposed to written language, a possibility given by the massified access to electronic devices and the internet. Following Johnson’s ideas, the ability of literacy is developed as: 2. Based on the deductive and inductive reasonings , the sentence that is not a deductive reasoning is...

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Week 8

1. Which of the following generalizations about reading against a text would Hillary Janks agree with? 2. Based on the text Literacy: Reading the word and the world written by Freire & Macebo (1987), the quote "Mechanically memorizing the description of an object does not constitute knowing the object" emphasizes in:

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Week 9 - 10

Undertaking the Act of Writing as a Situated Social Practice: Going beyond the Linguistic and the Textual. Canagarajah, A. (2013). The end of second language writing?. Journal of Second Language Writing, Canagarajah, S. (2015). “Blessed in my own way:” Pedagogical affordances for dialogical voice construction in multilingual student writing. Journal of Second Language Writing.

Week 9

1. Which of the following generalizations about voice construction in multilingual writers would Suresh Canagarajah agree with? 2. "According to Baynham (1995), writing as practice looks at the way in which writing and the writer are entrenched in institutional practices, discourses, and ideologies. In his words, to understand writing as situated social practice. " (Chapetón & Chala, 2013, p. 3) Based on the quote, what is social practice referred to?

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Week 10

1. S. Canagarajah (2015) defines the ecological resources that take part into the classroom ecosystem for critical learning, also called affordances described as “ ‘signs that acquire meaning and relevance as a result of purposeful activity and participation by the learner and the perceptual, cognitive, and emotional engagement that such activity stimulates’ ” (Van Lier cited by Canagarajah, 2015, p. 782). The ecological resources he refers to are… 2. According to Canagarajah (2013) "Many scholars now don’t think of languages as bounded and separate, but always in contact and mutually influencing each other." (p.1) Then, it is possible to say that ...

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Week 12

Kesler, T. (2012). Writing with voice.The Reading Teacher, 66 (1), 25- 29. Miller, R., & Pessoa, S. (2016). Where's your thesis statement and what happened to your topic sentences?: Identifying organizational challenges in undergraduate student argumentative writing.

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Week 12

1. One of Kesler's practical tips for dialogical conception of voice states that students should belong to a writing community to get involved into the writing dynamics by interacting in a particular manner with others that have the same writing purpose beyond learning how to develop the writing skills. At the School of Education and Pedagogy of UPB they encourage the students to be part of one of the variety of research programs offered by the faculty so the students can complete their graduation paper. Aquenarre is one of the research literature programs offered in the faculty where, in some instances, some students remain part of the program beyond completing their graduation paper, as the program provides them the possibility of: 2. According to the document "Where's your thesis statement and what happened to your topic sentences?: Identifying organizational challenges in undergraduate student argumentative writing" (Miller, R., & Pessoa, S., 2016), the main focus of the text is...

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Week 13

Writing activity: The power of a word in modern medicine: Essay possibilities Click here!