Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION VIII
TACLOBAN CITY
LEYTE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES (EAPP)

Learning Activity Sheets (LAS)

Name of Student: ______________________________________________________

Year Level: ____________________
Section: ________________________
Date: Week 2: Sept. 5 – 8, 2022

FUNDAMENTALS OF READING ACADEMIC TEXTS

(CRITICAL READING STRATEGIES)

Background Information for Learners/ Panimula (Susing Konsepto)

CRITICAL READING STRATEGIES

• Academic reading requires focus and understanding.
• Interact with the text by questioning its assumptions, responding to its arguments, and connecting it to real-life
experiences and applications.
• Critical or reflective reading helps identify the key arguments presented by the author and analyze concepts
presented in the text.
• Practice reading strategies to be employed during each stage of reading.
o BEFORE READING
 Determine the type of academic text to be read
 Establish purpose for reading
 Identify author’s purpose for writing
 Predict or infer the main idea or argument of the text based on its title.
 Identify your attitude towards the author and the text
 State what you already know and what you want to learn about the topic.
 Determine target audience
 Check publication date for relevance. (at most 5 years earlier than current year)
 Check reference list
 Use a concept map or a graphic organizer to note existing ideas and knowledge on the topic.
o DURING READING
 Annotate important parts of the text. This can help determine essential ideas or information,
main ideas or arguments, and new information or ideas.
 Use dialectic journal if the reading material is not personally owned.
o AFTER READING
 Reflect on what you learned
 React on some parts of the text through writing  Discuss some parts with teacher or
classmate.
 Link the main idea of the text to what you already know.

Learning Competency with Code/ Kasanayang Pampagkatuto at Koda

Differentiates language used in academic texts from various disciplines (CS_EN11/12A-EAPP-Ia-c-2)
ACTIVITY 1:
Read the following excerpt from the conclusion of Dhiraj, et.al’s study. To better understand the text, make a Dialectic
Journal about it. You may use another sheet of paper for your answer.

Given that the influence of mobile technologies on tweeting patterns has been understudied, we sought to
bridge this gap by examining whether tweets from mobile and web-based sources differ significantly in their
linguistic styles. We studied 6 weeks of Twitter spritzer stream data, containing 235 million tweets. We focused
on the analysis of tweets by source – specifically, mobile versus web-based sources by time of day. This
involved evaluating several categories or subsets in which mobile sources may be similar to or different from
web sources. We used word lists from social psychology to test for levels of egocentricity, gender style,
emotional content, and agency in both mobile and web tweets.
Ultimately, we found that mobile tweets are not only more egocentric in language than any other group, but that
the ratio of egocentric to non-egocentric tweets is consistently greater for mobile tweets than from nonmobile
sources. We did not find that mobile tweets were particularly gendered. Regardless of platform, tweets tended to
employ words traditionally associated as masculine. We did find that negative language is used more frequently
by mobile users at any point in time, a finding that would benefit from further research. The ratio of negative to
positive unigrams was also found to be consistently greater for mobile tweets than web tweets. Lastly, we did not
find that mobile-based tweets are more agentic than web-based tweets. Rather, both platforms tended to employ
language that was associated with communal behaviors.

Source: Do We Tweet Differently From Our Mobile Devices? A Study of Language Differences on Mobile and
Web-based Twitter Platform http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcom.12176/pdf

ACTIVITY 2:
1. Think of a specific topic which personally interests you. Find and read three academic texts related to this specific
topic using the links: https://scholar.google.com.ph/schhp?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 or http://www.palgrave-
journals.com/pal/information/free_articles.html

2. Using 500-750 words, write a synthesis of the texts. Use the questions below as your guide in writing.
A. Text Information
a. What are the main ideas of the text?
b. What new information of ideas did you find in each?
B. Synthesis
a. How are the three texts related to one another? How do they contribute to the field?
b. What have you learned from the text? How can these new ideas be helpful in:
• Your life choices or decisions?
• The way you think about yourself, others, or society?
• The way you shape yourself into what you want to be?

3. Follow the format and mechanics presented below:

• Use the following paper format: o Short bond paper (8”x11”) o
Times New Roman font; size 12 pts o 1.5 spacing
o 1-inch margin on all sides 
Paginate at the right bottom page.
• Use a number format; label the first part as Text Information, and
the second part as Synthesis Report. Separate the pages for these
parts.
• Do not exceed five pages.
• Provide a list of references at the last part of the report (APA style)
 Use the template below for your heading.
 Name: Year level:
Instructor: Date:
Name of Activity: SYNTHESIS REPORT Word Count:

Rubric for scoring/Rubrik sa Pagpupuntos (if necessary)

Reflection / Pangwakas:

References for learners/Mga Sanggunian

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcom.12176/pdf https://scholar.google.com.ph/schhp?
hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/information/free_articles.html
https://mseffie.com/assignments/synthesis/Synthesis%20Essay%20Rubric%204.pdf
Barrot, J. & Sipacio, P. (2016). Communicate today. English for academic and professional purposes for senior high
school. Quezon City: C&E Publishing, Inc.

Prepared by: Checked by:

JEAROEVEM MARIE L. PACIENCIA JULIANA C. ARPON
Subject Teacher MT-I, Group Head Designate, GA