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Deyes, Tony – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1987
Describes ongoing research aimed toward finding a minimum discourse grammar to help Brazilian students learning English for special purposes to cope with the sort of texts they have to read in their own disciplines. The research has involved review of scientific philosophy, a reading miscue study, and a comparison of English and Portuguese…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries