The study examined the ways in which different categories of discourse marker affect how well foreign college students understand university lectures, and specifically, the effects of macro markers (those indicating overall organization) and micro markers (functioning as fillers, indicating links between sentences). Four versions of an American…

The linguistic features of 40 science lectures were examined at Sultan Qaboos University. Results are reported and suggestions are offered for helping English for Academic Purposes instructors and materials writers improve the listening and note-taking skills of nonnative students. (Contains eight references.) (LB)

The speech introduces a colloquium on the teaching of listening comprehension to students of English for academic purposes (EAP). The colloquium's aim is to address ways that EAP instructors can improve students' lecture listening skills by discussing the types of background discourse knowledge and listening strategies that…