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The objective of the course “English for Specific Purposes” (E.S.P), focusing on textual genres developed in a virtual environment, is to enable course participants in understanding and interpreting texts in the English language as well as involving the students of the Linguistics Course at UEG in mentoring activities. This paper discusses an extension project of E.S.P via Distance Learning in the State University of Goiás-UEG that presents in its capillary a multicampi structure of 42 units. UEG aims at the integral formation of the human being to a socio-professional solidarity performance and the concern for the exercise of citizenship. This project reveals the UEG policy of engagement and participation in integrated development of the state of Goiás besides aligning the purpose the university to prepare its students to participate in the Science Without Borders program.
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Rezende, S.R.G., de Almeida, F.A.S., de Freitas, C.C. (2013). English for Specific Purposes via Distance Learning: Opportunities for Academic and Professional Qualification. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 374. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39476-8_17
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