| dc.description.abstract | Design of the Book
English has reached more spectrums of communication, ranging from
basic colloquial communication to specific and technical realm of
communication. University students, as learner of English typically
grappling with academic and occupational nuance of English. Devoted to
meeting that academically and occupationally contextualized language
learning and language use, English for Agriculture is developed by taking
into account the contents and skills that are pondered crucial by students
at the Faculty of Agriculture.
Level and Aim of the Book
The book is developed within the framework of socio-cognitive approach,
seeing language used in different contexts involving integrated language
domains, i.e. speaking, writing, reading, and listening. These skills are
always integrated, though not entirely, since listening serves as additional
skill. The approach, bound to Common European Framework (CEFR), is
also operative in establishing the gradation of communicative language
abilities across units. Devoted to introductory level of Academic English,
the language contents involved only pertain to A2 and B1 levels at CEFR
level. This gradation applies to all three-objective units in the book. It is
expected, by applying integrated-skill language learning in context, that
the book can cater for various language learning needs of students at the
very faculty.
Foreword to Teachers and Students
The book is graded from simple to complex language tasks, ranging from
A2 to B1. This is meant to allow teachers structure their instruction in a
way that scaffolds students’ performance throughout the course. The
integrated-language skills in each unit also serves as guideline to plan their
lesson plan. In order to cater for students’ various performance, the book
includes enrichment section wherein students can further practice their
language mastery, therefore allowing them to be independent.
Despite the inclusion of contents related to Agricultural studies, this book
lies at the language end on the content-language continuum. The languagefocused
approach
is
chosen
as
the
book
is
meant
to
be
an
introduction
to
English
specific to Agricultural studies. As such, the content related to
agriculture is only meant to be the theme characterizing every unit
included in the book. To scaffold the understanding on technical
vocabularies used in Agriculture studies, the book includes specific task in
a form of vocabulary log. | en_US |
