DOLE PHILIPPINES SCHOOL

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Kalsangi, Polomolok, South Cotabato

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

FIRST SEMESTER
ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC
AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

Module 1
LANGUAGE AND TEXT STRUCTURE ACROSS
DISCIPLINES
 Lesson 1: Language and Text Structure Across Disciplines

General Objectives
At the end of the modUle, yoU shoUld be able to:
 Identify the dominant text structures in sample
academic texts
 Note language features in texts across disciplines

Lesson Outline
1. Mathematics Texts
2. Business Texts
3. Social Science Texts
4. Natural Science Texts
5. Literature and the Arts

Discussion

Read the following pages from the book, #Enhance English

Engagements: English for Academic and Professional Purposes.

 Essential Readings
Informational Text Structure (Read from pages 3 to 14)
*Nine main informational text structures:
1. Definition/ Elucidation
2. Description
3. Recount of a Sequence
4. Cause-Effect
5. Problem-Solution
6. Comparison and Contrast
7. Enumeration
8. Classification
9. Thesis-Evidence
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 ◊ Language and Text Structure across Disciplines
(Read from pages 15 to 17)

Reminders

Reading Strategies to Determine Text Structure

1. linguistic- take note of language cues

2. text mapping- graphically representing the text through

Venn diagram, continuum line, and semantic web with boxes
to contain concepts and arrows to show relationship, and
directional flow

3. outlining- topic or sentence outline classifying the major

and minor ideas of a text

Practice 1

Answer numbers 1 to 5, on pages in 18 and 19 in the book,

English for Academic and Professional Purposes

Practice 2

Identify the dominant structure on the following excerpts

below. List the language cues in each one. Do any
appropriate Text Mapping strategy to show overall
organization and content of the materials. Write your
answers on a short bond paper.

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 Excerpt #1

A language, through a highly-developed lexicon or vocabulary,

makes its speakers more conscious of a certain phenomenon

more than others. For example, the Eskimos are reported

to have at least five terms for snow, so they experience snow in five

different ways: 'falling snow' is different from 'wind-driven flying

snow', from 'snow on the ground', 'snow packed hard like ice',

and 'melting snow'. Other cultures may have only one term for rice

but Filipinos distinguish "bigas" from "kanin" from "sinaing"

from "bahaw" from "tutong" from "lugaw" from "sinangag", etc.

"It is clear that the continuum of experience is differently

dissected by the vocabularies of different languages" (Montgomery,

1986:173). That is why the words of a language are powerful:

they label and therefore, create divisions in society. Such divisions

or segmentations may not be natural but when a people become used

to using such words, then the divisions eventually appear

to be natural.

R. Miciano
Language, power, and ideology. The politics of language use
and the politics of meaning. U.P. Los Banos Journal, V, 1 (Jan-Dec), p.
12.
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 Excerpt #2

In China, paintings are not hung on walls to be seen at any

time. They are rolled up in brocade wrappers and stored in drawers.

At an appropriate time, the scrolls are brought out to be unrolled

ever so carefully on a table. There are three major

types of formats: First is the hanging scroll which is either on paper

or silk and mounted on a paper and cloth backing.

Next is the handscroll which has a horizontal shape. The exterior

binding is usually of rich brocade. The oldest of formats,

it is unrolled from right to left, enjoyed in progression

as the painting reveals itself foot by foot. It is a kind of visual

narrative where the dramatic possibilities are limitless.

The smallest of formats is the album leaf which could be a square,

round, or an oblate circular fan-shape on either paper or silk.

M. Gapud
An introduction to Chinese painting, U.P. Los Banos Journal,
v, 1, p. 80. 5.

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 Excerpt #3

The popular term for the brain is "gray matter," but did you
know that there's also a white matter? What is called gray matter
is actually tissue that is full of neurons; it is responsible for
the broad range of cognitive and emotional functions of a human
being. Unknown to many, the white matter is actually tissue which
coordinates the different parts of the brain for their smooth
functioning. For instance, the frontal lobe enables humans
to anticipate or foresee the possible consequences of their
decisions and actions. The frontal lobe is connected by white
matter to the other brain parts in order to balance its operations
with the functions of the other parts. Unfortunately,
the connection between the frontal lobe and the rest of the brain
only becomes fully formed when a person is about 20 years of age.
This means that, during their teenage years, youngsters' emotions
tend to rule their brains. This has negative implications
for technology that has enabled "instant feedback" in social media.
Given an emotional brain, verbal attack might become the usual
feedback of teens whenever they encounter comments
that they perceive to be negative. Thus, the prevalence
of the phenomenon called "bashing" in social media.

Jack Dickey
"The Antisocial Network," Time, July 7 and 14, 2014, p. 30)

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 Exercises 1.1

Create 2 columns and list 5 jargons. Provide a sentence

which the jargon is used. Disciplines, used as jargons under
a text structure are not allowed. Must be written in a short
bond paper

STEM: Mathematics/ Natural Science Text

HUMSS: Social Science/ Literature and Arts Text

Scoring Rubric

Points Description

1- 5 pts. Grammatically incorrect and unpunctuated,

most information are incorrect, others are inaccurate.

6-10 pts. There are several errors in grammar and punctuation.

Some information are correct, others are inaccurate.

11-15 pts. There are minimal errors grammar and punctuation

and almost all of the important information in the
material are accurately expressed.

16-20 There are no errors in grammar and punctuations.

pts. All information in the material are accurately
expressed.

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 Output Format
• Must be handwritten in a whole white paper.
• Must follow the standard DPS header.
• Upon submission, the student must take a picture
of the output and submit it in JPEG / JPG format.

Submission Guidelines
• Submit the output(s) via e-mail polycarp_nieves@yahoo.com
please use the following subject line and file- name format:
• [Subject], [Lesson #], [“Module Title”], [Last Name].
• Example: EAPP, Lesson 1, “Language and Text Structure
Across Disciplines ”, Nieves

In this module, I have learned that…

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References

Enhanced English Engagements: English for Academic

and Professional Purposes, Unit 1, Lesson 1, pages 2-22

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