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choice.
The preparation of our students for reading specific
literature is one of the main purposes of the DLEM; it aims at
providing students at any academic level with the ability to
read technical texts so that,they will be able to carry out
their academic studies
efficiently.
Thus, the main point in an English Language I Course
and in any ESP Course is to train students in reading skills.
This common aspect has already been mentioned in this work:
the
reading of technical texts has been one of UFPB students' needs
to be
satisfied.
In fact, the growth of the UFPB and the necessity
for
keeping pace with all the developmental needs required by the
society to supply the needs of this same society are the main
factors which have led the UFPB not only to expand the
number
of courses offered but also to improve
the quality of those
courses. ESP Courses have been the result of this development;
we might also say that English Language I Courses were the first,
step towards the provision of ESP Courses for the graduate and
post-graduate students. Nowadays the former have tried to
reach
the status of pre-ESP Courses on the assumption that our English
Language I students will certainly feel the need to give continuity
to their English lessons, since we all know that one semester
of
any foreign language course is not sufficient to remedy all the
deficiencies of most of the newly-admitted university students,
in relation to their ability to read technical
texts.
It is the performance of our students in English
Language Course I that may enable us to foresee the probable