Week 2

RFLECT

1 thing I do not understand is nothing. I actually understand the lesson because I red when I have

spare time. And also because the teacher explains the lessons clearly and understandable.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Lesson 1:

LANGUAGE USED IN ACADEMIC TEXT

Lesson 2:

USE KNOWLEDGE OF TEXT STRUCTURE

Lesson 3:

VARIOUS TECHNIQUES IN SUMMARIZING

LESSON 5:

THESIS STATEMENT OF ACADEMIC TEXT

WEEK 1

SUM UP

Academic language is the language needed by the students to do work in schools.

It includes, for example, discipline-specific vocabulary, grammar and punctuation, and

applications and rhetorical conventions and devices that are typical for a content are (e.g., essays,

lab reports, discussion for a controversial issue,) One of the goals for the learning segment

should be to further develop students’ academic language abilities. However, it should also

develop students’ abilities to produce and understand oral and written texts typical in your

subject area as well as to engage in language-based tasks.

GLOSSARY

Caution – it is used to avoid sweeping generalizations.

Explicitness - refers to the use of signposts to allow readers to trace the relationships in the parts

of a study.

Formality – reflects dignified stance in writing as a member of the academic community.

Nominalization – refers to the nouns that are created from adjectives (words that are describe

nouns) or verbs (action words.)

Full Forms of Words – refers to the importance of caution in stating claims

Nominalized Phrasing – refers to the rule to have more nouns (naming words) than verbs

(action or being words).

Objectivity – refers to impersonal and certain level of social distance is maintained.

Passive Voice – refers to the focus on who is receiving or experiencing the action.

Passivation – refers to the results of actions that are highlighted.

Tentative statement – refers to the language follows the conventional structure of writing by

using.

Third Person Point of View – refers to the point of view which is usually clearer and allows a

writer to come across as more credible.

REFELCT

One thing I do not understand about the lesson is nothing. I actually understand the lesson

because I red when I have spare time. And also because the teacher explains the lessons clearly

and understandable.
 REMEMBER UNDERSTAND APPLY EVALUATE

-I understand the - The important -I could use all of -I think I did well
techniques in things about what I my learnings and because I did all my
summarizing various did is that I gave all various techniques in best.
academic text. And I my best and true to summarizing a
can now summarize myself. variety in academic
various academic text.
text using graphic
organizer.

REFLECT