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Direct linkQuinlan, Kathleen M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Lecturing is often touted as a means to inspire students' interest, despite evidence that most lectures fail to do so. This study examines triggers of students' situational interest during lectures. Students (N = 706) in 12 different individual one hour first year lectures in a UK university were surveyed at the end of the lecture. They described…
Descriptors: Student Interests, College Students, Lecture Method, Student Attitudes
Littlemore, Jeannette; Chen, Phyllis Trautman; Koester, Almut; Barnden, John – Applied Linguistics, 2011
This article reports a study on metaphor comprehension by the international students whose first language is not English, while attending undergraduate lectures at a British university. Study participants identified words or multiword items that they found difficult in extracts from four academic lectures, and they interpreted metaphors from those…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
