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The nounphrase in EFLreadingPatricia Medina


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AreaEnglish as a Foreign Language (EFL) foracademic purposes.Reading comprehension.


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Problem The position of adjecti e in thesentences is di!erent in English and in"panish.#n English man$ (%&') adjecti es canprecede a noun.

This creates confusion in "panish nati espea ers learners


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laim Teaching the identi*cation of the nounEnglish phrase+ its head (noun) andpremodi*ers contributes to the o erallreading comprehension of "panishnati e spea ers learners.


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%st "ource, -i iana "oler-i iana "oler.

Anal$/ing adjecti es in scientic discourse, an e0plorator$stud$ 1ith educational applications for "panish spea ers atad anced uni ersit$ le el2Academic journal, English for speci c Purpose s 3% (3443)%5'&%6'

7eing interrelated 1ith the e aluation and

interpretation of data collected in research+adjecti es should not be anal$/ed as an isolatedphenomenon but 1ithin the social and academicen ironment in 1hich the$ occur2 ("oler)


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"oler+ -.lassi*cation

Adjecti al constructions8i ided into t1o groups according tothe position of the adjecti e.

) Position di!ers in English and "panish.) English, pre&modi*ers .) "panish, post&modif$ing position.


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"oler+ -.

Pre&modif$ing 9 Post&modif$ing position


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"oler+ -.Pre&modif$ing 9 Post&modif$ing position"panish&spea ing student should,

First determine the head in theconstruction

Then+ read to the left .

TranslationAdjecti es are positioned to the right of the head


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3 nd "ource, Lei a : 7aile$7ertha Lei a de #/;uierdo : 8an 7aile$

omple0 noun phrases and comple0nominals, some practicalconsiderations2

Tesol Reporter )+ %=&3=.


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Lei a : 7aile$ This article 1ill address the use in english of comple0 noun phrases in generaland comple0 nominals nominals in particular these structures are fre;uentl$found in scienti*c and technical te0ts e0tremel$ compact the$ combine se eralideas into just a fe1 1ords b$ adding a ariet$ of premodi*ers premodi*ers to anoun an e0ample is e0cess 1ater 1eightremo er suggesting some ind ofde ice that gets rid of surplus 1eight consisting of 1ater comple0 noun phrases

are found especiall$ in technical english and journalism language areas 1herecompression is highl$ alued.#n spite of their fre;uent use no e0plicit rules for the formation or anal$sis ofthese combinations e0ist this 1orsens the confusion of man$ EFL readersespeciall$ spanish spea ers because the position of nouns and adjecti es inenglish and spanish is almost al1a$s di!erent in english the adjecti e precedesthe noun it modi*es almost 1ithout e0ception in spanish ho1e er althoughlimiting adjecti es usuall$ precede nouns eg dos ecuaciones t1o e;uations eltercer capitulo the third chapter el mismo dism resultado resultado the sameresult tanto dinero so much mone$ descripti e adjecti es generall$ follo1 themeg un en ase el ase frio a cold container un dcido a organico 6rganico organicsorganico an organic acid an additional problem arises from the fact that oftense eral nouns are strung together in english 1hile parallel nominal structures inspanish use prepositions to ma e their relationships and meanings more e0plicitcompare radio signals and senates de radio2).


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"1i1e/bin+ 7.#dentif$ing+ classif$ing and anal$/ing nounphrases

A noun phrase is a group of 1ords thatincludes an obligator$ head noun and all the1ords that modif$ it (7iber+ Cohansson+ Leech+

onrad+ : Finegan+ %===H r$stal+ 3445). The head noun is the core of the noun phrase+and it ma$ stand alone or ha e determiners ormodi*ers before it ( premodi ers )+ or after it( postmodi ers ).


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"1i1e/bin+ 7.?h$ 1orr$ about understanding and teaching noun phrasesB

A signi*cant purpose of academic language is to clearl$describe comple0 ideas ("chleppegrell+ 3445). omple0thought re;uires comple0 language. #n particular+ as 1e sa1 inthe academic science te0ts in this stud$+ as academic le elsrise+ noun phrase comple0it$ increases to e0press increasingl$complicated and diDcult concepts.

To e0press these ideas+ nouns are important because the$ aretechnical terms that are speci*c to an academic areaI1hat are

often called bricks (8utro : Moran+ 344). Theimportance of ELs@ no1ing nouns is apparent+ but nounphrases are e en more important because the conte0t for thenoun creates a more speci*c meaning than the noun itself.


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5 th "ource The #mpact f The omple0 ounPhrase #n Reading omprehension fEnglish "cienti*c Te0ts


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Abstract: This 1or is a pioneering e0perience in educational research at theschool of e0act+ chemical and natural sciences. the approach to the

te0t is three&le elled, semantic+ morphological and s$ntactic and theaim is to help students a oid 1ord&for&1ord translation and o eruse ofthe bilingual dictionar$. problems in the comprehension of comple0le0ical units ha e been identi*ed as a major issue in the literature andalso b$ our research team. this project is framed in the ;ualitati e&;uantitati e paradigm. the population consisted of t1o 54&studentgroups (an e0perimental and a control group) chosen randoml$. resultsof this 1or con*rm our h$pothesis that students e0posed to greatertheoretical instruction of the comple0 noun phrase (cnp) are moreeDcient readers. although the e0plicit teaching of the cnp does notappear linearl$ correlated 1ith the general comprehension of te0ts asa 1hole+ it is reKected in a better ;ualit$ of reading comprehension.


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T$pes of te0ts (in thisresearch)

% scienti*c academic article Title and abstract.

Academic articles usuall$ ha e morepremodi*ers because of the highl$speciali/ed language.


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onte0t and Custi*cationonte0t

Population, "panish nati e spea ersgraduate students.

"tudents of EFL for academic purposes.8i!erent areas.

Custi*cation"tudents need to research.

nderstand abstracts.


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Title

onceptual design of #ndian molten saltbreeder reactor2

onceptual design of #ndian molten salt prem. n

breeder reactor 2 n

Diseño conceptual de un reactor generador

de sales fundidas indias.


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Abstract The third stage of Indian nuclear power programme en isages the use of thorium as the fertile material 1ith3


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References"oler+ -. Anal$/ing adjecti es inscienti*c discourse, an e0plorator$stud$ 1ith educational applications for"panish spea ers at ad anceduni ersit$ le el. #n English for "peci*cPurposes+ 3% (3443). p. %5'&%6'

onceptual design of #ndian molten saltbreeder reactor

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