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Cheng, Stephanie W. – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
The present study investigates the rhetorical structure of academic lecture closings, and the impact of class size on this part genre. A framework of "stages" and "strategies" is developed to analyze the rhetorical structure of lecture closings. Large and small classes are further compared to find how class size may influence the ways lecturers…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Class Size, Semantics, Small Classes
Deroey, Katrien L. B.; Taverniers, Miriam – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
This paper presents a comprehensive overview of lexicogrammatical devices which highlight important or relevant points in lectures. Despite the established usefulness of discourse organizational cues for lecture comprehension and note-taking, very little is known about the marking of relevance in this genre. The current overview of…
Descriptors: Cues, Language Research, Educational Research, Textbooks
Thogersen, Jacob; Airey, John – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
This paper investigates the consequences of L2 use in university lectures. Data in the study stem from parallel lectures held by the same experienced lecturer in Danish (L1) and English (L2). It is found that the lecturer takes 22% longer to present the same content in L2 compared to L1, and that the lecturer speaks 23% more slowly in L2 than in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
Lee, Joseph J. – English for Specific Purposes, 2009
This exploratory study investigates the impact of class size on the rhetorical move structures and lexico-grammatical features of academic lecture introductions. From the MICASE corpus (The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English), two small corpora of lecture introductions of small- and large-class lectures were compiled. Using a genre-based…
Descriptors: Class Size, Small Classes, Comparative Analysis, Lecture Method

Arden-Close, Christopher – English for Specific Purposes, 1993
Language problems occurring in chemistry lectures given by English-speaking lecturers to Omani students are examined. All problems originated because of the limited common areas of reference between students and lecturers. It is suggested that the kind of learning of words that occurs in these lectures entails a very limited knowledge of these…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Communication Problems, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries

Allison, Desmond; Tauroza, Steve – English for Specific Purposes, 1995
This study investigated whether undergraduate non-native speakers of English had difficulties comprehending information in a science lecture whose discourse organization went beyond a basic problem-solution structure. It found that the comprehension difficulties of the non-native speakers were also found among many of the native speakers. (25…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education

Clerehan, Rosemary – English for Specific Purposes, 1995
This study examined notes taken by 29 undergraduate native and non-native speakers of English during a lecture on commercial law. It found that native speakers took more detailed notes and more accurately recorded the hierarchical structure and principal elements of the lecture than non-native speakers. (48 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Business Education, College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education

Olsen, Leslie A.; Huckin, Thomas N. – English for Specific Purposes, 1990
Fourteen non-native speaking graduate and undergraduate students watched an authentic 16-minute videotaped engineering lecture and were asked to provide immediate recall summaries. It is concluded that students should be taught to listen to lectures in a more rhetorical and strategic way.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Engineering Education, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Instructional Materials

MacDonald, Malcolm; Badger, Richard; White, Goodith – English for Specific Purposes, 2000
Explores the usefulness of the criterion of authenticity for the selection and evaluation of English for academic purposes materials. Using a student questionnaire and techniques of discourse analysis based on Halliday's concepts of field, tenor, and mode, the levels of difficulty and relevance of materials using four media was investigated.…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, Instructional Material Evaluation

Jackson, 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

Weissberg, Bob – English for Specific Purposes, 1993
A qualitative study is described investigating the university graduate student seminar presentation as a speech event and its status as a genre. Findings support Swales' (1990) contention that the graduate seminar is an independent genre related to the experimental research article, not merely an oral replication. (20 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English for Special Purposes, Graduate Study, Language Usage

Shalom, Celia – English for Specific Purposes, 1993
Two types of main hall discussions at an ecology conference were studied: plenary lecture discussion as an accepted, established spoken research process genre with its own conventions; and poster session discussion as a fragile, embryonic research process genre struggling for definition. (14 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English for Special Purposes

Dunkel, Patricia; Davy, Sheryl – English for Specific Purposes, 1989
A study compared American and international students' views about the usefulness of taking notes during English lecture presentations. Students differed in terms of their estimations of notetaking adequacy, time pressure experienced during listening and notetaking, and amount of notetaking. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Students

Flowerdew, John; Miller, Lindsay – English for Specific Purposes, 1996
Reports findings of ethnographic research into second-language lectures conducted at a university in Hong Kong. Six sociocultural features of second-language lectures are discussed: purposes of lectures, roles of lecturers, styles of lecturing, simplification, listener behavior, and humor. (31 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperative Learning, Course Objectives, Cultural Traits

Basturkmen, Helen – English for Specific Purposes, 2002
Reports on a study exploring patterns of discourse organization in seminar-type discussions. Analysis was made of patterns of sequential organization in discussions between English for academic purposes students in university seminars in the United Kingdom. Analysis revealed two patterns of organization: simple exchanges of pre-formed ideas and…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes
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