Introducing Authentic Materials to Develop Students’ Academic Writing Style. The case of second year Students of English at Batna University.Doctorat thesis,(2014) Université de Batna 2.
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2017-03-17
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Hellalet Souhila
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Modern theories in Education advocate the combination of the teacher’s power of transmitting knowledge with some other facilitating tools and equipments .In the case of foreign language teaching, the inclusion of authentic materials proved its efficiency and gained large support among its users. The primary aim of this research is to investigate one of the most controversial and problematic subjects in the domain of English language teaching. It aims at developing the academic writing style using authentic written texts as teaching inputs in grammar with second year students of English at the University of Batna .Following a combination of an experimental and descriptive approach, we could confirm the hypothesis that in a course consisting of grammar as theoretical framework, academic style can be developed through exposure to authentic language. The main significant results obtained in the field of our investigation converge to recommend that teaching writing can also be the fruit of combined courses . In a context where native language is the primary input, complementarity of objectives fosters learning. To the students, continuous exposure to authentic materials will likely help them discover other aspects of the foreign language which are not always part of the academic programs