The Importance of Studying Disciplinary Text in English Language.

To study the disciplinary text in English is a very important issue for us as future teachers who are trained to teach children, teenager and also adults in a college class.

 While the English language is becoming a more and more important skill in professional life, texts in English language as study material and as a requirement to publish research is becoming more popular in academic life as lingua franca not only in the field of technology and international business, but also in all kinds of disciplines (such as: biology, law, physics and even in education) to publish research

One way to publish research is through the “scientific article”, but each discipline has needs of its own that can only be satisfied by a discursive genre of its own. Publishing research and scientific findings is essential to college life, publishing is a need for post graduates and to read these publications is a need for undergraduates.  According to Ibañez (2008) “it is considered essential for university students to have psycho-discursive skills that allow them comprehend disciplinary texts successfully.”

I would go further to say that it is essential for a college student to be able to produce this kind of text as well as to understand it, not only in his or her native language, but also in English since this language has become a sort of trading money in the scientific world. For the students of scientific programs, is fundamental to learn to understand and to produce this kind of text since they will be required to do so during their professional life and during post graduate programs. Thus the understanding and production of disciplinary text in English language comes as a matter that should be important to us as future teachers and also as a challenge for college education, since the system that exists now shows little awareness about this matter.