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Bier, Ada – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This contribution reports on the findings of a project whose aim was to explore the construct of the language-teaching methodology interface (LTMI) in lecturing through English. Evidence of its existence will be provided and implications for teacher training will be considered. On the assumption that the LTMI can be characterised by the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Schemata (Cognition)
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Shi, Dan; Irwin, Derek; Du, Ping – Classroom Discourse, 2023
The present study aims to explore an embodied approach to students' deep learning; specifically, how deep learning is interactively achieved through teachers' languaging dynamics and multimodal representations in interactive lecturing in L2 higher education (HE) contexts. The purpose is to understand how an instructor's embodied and multimodal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication, Student Participation
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Yang, Hui-Chi; Sun, Yu-Chih – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2013
OpenCourseWare (OCW) has received increasing attention over the past few years in higher education. These courses provide appealing opportunities to view classes taught in well-established universities worldwide. The current study aims to examine how OCW lectures can serve as authentic learning materials to facilitate vocabulary acquisition for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Verbal Stimuli, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
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Liang, Xiaoping; Smith, Sara W. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
The present research analyzes instructional strategies used to integrate the learning of content and English as a foreign language in a bilingual physics class at a university in Shanghai, China. It examines how the instructor handles meaning and form of new English science vocabulary in concept-focused physics lectures and the strategies he used…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Physics
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Evans, Stephen; Morrison, Bruce – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
This article examines the language-related challenges that first-year students face when adjusting to the demands of English-medium higher education in Hong Kong. The article is based on the findings of a longitudinal study which tracked the university careers of 28 students from a range of backgrounds via in-depth, semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Higher Education, Intervals, Learning Strategies
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Dafouz, E.; Nunez, B.; Sancho, C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2007
In recent years, many European countries have witnessed a rapid implementation of the CLIL approach at tertiary level. In Spain, although English has been introduced as the language of instruction in some master and doctoral courses, the application of the CLIL approach is still isolated. Similarly, little research has been done into CLIL…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers
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Jung, Euen Hyuk (Sarah) – Modern Language Journal, 2003
Demonstrates that cues play a significant role in second language listening comprehension and provides additional empirical support for their beneficial effect. Found that the absence of cues appeared to contribute significantly to the miscomprehension of information in a lecture. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Cues, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Sally, Ovaiza – ELT Journal, 1985
Describes an attempt to bridge the gap between the English learned in the classroom and the English encountered outside of class and to improve listening comprehension by putting engineering undergraduates through an experimental course in which a weekly academic lecture would be the point of focus. Discusses outcomes of the experiment. (SED)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Experimental Curriculum, Higher Education, Lecture Method
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DeCarrico, Jeanette; Nattinger, James R. – English for Specific Purposes, 1988
Demonstrates the difficulty that English-as-a-second-language students experience in comprehending academic lectures, explores the lexical phrases that occur in several representative academic lectures and categorizes them in terms of the discourse functions they perform, and suggests ways of teaching such lexical phrases and functional categories…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, English for Special Purposes, Higher Education
English, Susan Lewis – ESP Journal, 1985
Describes a study which investigated the effect of training in nonverbal and verbal cue identification on notetaking and listening comprehension by 100 Chinese graduate students. The paper also provides a model for future materials development, teaching methodology, testing, and research in this area. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Body Language, Classroom Communication, Cues, Higher Education
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Northcott, J. – English for Specific Purposes, 2001
Considers the role of interactive lecturing styles within the context of the Edinburgh University MBA program. Examples show a variety of ways of including student oral participation within the lecture framework. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, English (Second Language), Ethnography, Foreign Countries
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Cova, Bernard; And Others – Management Education and Development, 1993
The EAP, European School of Management, has evolved a curriculum based on inductive pedagogy. Its five major dimensions are case study method, "memoire," in-company placements, lectures, and language learning. (SK)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Course Content, Educational Philosophy
Eastmond, Nick – 1994
This brief paper describes a special, informal seminar for international students that used an adjunct instruction model to focus on technical terminology in the field of instructional technology. Foreign students are enrolled concurrently in two linked courses--a language course and a content course with the two courses sharing content base and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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Yousif, Amna Abdel Gadir – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Examined the speech of Sudanese non-native speakers of English while they lectured to non-native English speaking students from in content-subject classes. The study was carried out to see whether lecturers simplified their language syntactically by proficiency level. Findings reveal that the lecturers used five different syntactic variables…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Mendelsohn, David – TESL Canada Journal, 2002
Describes a study of the listening comprehension of first-year, nonnative English speakers in a large North American university that sought to find out how students--all economics majors--were coping with listening to economics lectures and to try an experiment in mentoring by linking them with a lecture buddy. The mentoring project was found to…
Descriptors: College Students, Economics, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes
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