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Fahmny, Jane Jackson; Bilton, Linda – Guidelines, 1992
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)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedJackson, Jane; Bilton, Linda – English for Specific Purposes, 1994
Twenty lectures by native speaker geology lecturers to nonnative speaker students were transcribed, and 921 instances of vocabulary elaboration were coded into a computer database according to 20 linguistic features. Analysis revealed noticeable variation among lecturers in language range/technicality, vocabulary elaboration, signalling, and use…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English for Science and Technology, Geology
Fahmy, Jane Jackson; Bilton, Linda – 1990
Most information is still conveyed to university students through lectures. This necessitates that students have sophisticated listening and note-taking skills, and poses additional difficulties for non-native students. To identify areas for improvement, science lectures in English in the Sultanate of Oman were analyzed. The relationship between…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)
