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Zhongling Pi; Qiuchen Yu; Yi Zhang; Yan Li; Hui Chen; Jiumin Yang – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Leaderboards are a highly popular gamification component used in student learning to enhance motivation, attentional engagement, and learning performance. However, few studies have examined the effects of individual leaderboard elements on English vocabulary learning through video lectures. Objectives: The present study aimed to…
Descriptors: Gamification, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
Daly, Nicola; Barbour, Julie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Increasingly, New Zealand English and Te Reo Maori are being woven together in Aotearoa New Zealand. This weaving is evident in the text of many dual language picturebooks. While the combination of text and image in picturebooks creates a powerful pedagogical tool, there is little research exploring their use with tertiary Arts students. In this…
Descriptors: Bilingual Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods, College Faculty, Picture Books
Ní Ríordáin, Máire; Flanagan, Eílis – Research in Mathematics Education, 2022
This paper presents a research framework for investigating the role of language use in mathematics learning. The paper draws on the wider M[superscript 2]EID study, which explores whether differences in languages (English and Irish) and their use by bilingual mathematical students have a differential impact on their mathematics meta-level…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Language Usage, Irish, Second Language Learning
Özer, Havva Zorluel; Okan, Zuhal – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
This study aims at determining discourse markers used by Turkish teachers and native teachers in EFL classrooms and comparing these items in terms of variety and frequency. To reach the objectives of the present study, two separate corpora were compiled through audio-recordings collected from two Turkish and two native EFL teachers? lectures.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Speakers
Deroey, Katrien L. B. – Applied Linguistics, 2015
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of lexicogrammatical markers of important lecture points and proposes a classification in terms of their interactive and textual orientation. The importance markers were extracted from the British Academic Spoken English corpus using corpus-driven and corpus-based methods. The classification is based on…
Descriptors: Classification, English, Academic Discourse, Computational Linguistics
Deroey, Katrien L. B. – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2012
This paper reports findings from a study on the discourse functions of basic "wh"-clefts such as "what our brains do is complicated information processing" in 160 lectures drawn from the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus. Like much linguistic research on this academic genre, the investigation is motivated by the…
Descriptors: Language Research, Verbs, English for Academic Purposes, Discourse Analysis
Hernandez-Nanclares, Nuria; Jimenez-Munoz, Antonio – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in Spain has increased the number of degrees taught through English, although secondary schools do not ensure an appropriate set of linguistic skills for bilingual degrees. A holistic, accountable model for Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-supported learning can give students the adequate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Language of Instruction, English
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
Jambor, Paul Z. – Online Submission, 2011
There appears to be a direct as well as an indirect link between the scholastic presence of the English language at any particular university and its respective Times Higher Education-Thomson Reuters 2010 World University Ranking, one of numerous world university rankings. Due to the author's familiarity and to some extent intimate relationship…
Descriptors: Universities, Language Role, Higher Education, Familiarity

Strodt-Lopez, Barbara – Applied Linguistics, 1991
Analysis of transcripts of nine undergraduate lectures in the humanities and social sciences found that professors used asides and local breaks in topicality to increase global semantic and pragmatic unity, introduce various mutually reinforcing interpretive frames, resolve apparent contradictions, highlight contrast, and establish relevance and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English
Cook, Margaret – 1974
This paper examines the speech performance characteristic of the college lecturer. One of the most organized forms of speech performance, the lecture functions as a referential monologue and has a necessarily topical focus. Specifically dealt with are the ways in which lecturers introduce new topics, link together topical utterances, and close out…
Descriptors: Colleges, English, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Praushitz, Walter G. – Minnesota English Journal, 1966
The remedies frequently adopted to solve the problems of staffing and administering an effective freshman English program have not been considered feasible or in the student's best interest at Concordia College. Recognizing the need for small classes as well as the problems and expenses of increased enrollments, the solution attempted at Concordia…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Television, English, English Curriculum
Marschark, Marc; Sapere, Patricia; Convertino, Carol; Seewagen, Rosemarie; Maltzen, Heather – Sign Language Studies, 2004
Remarkably few studies have examined the outcomes of sign language interpreting. Three experiments reported here examine deaf students' comprehension of interpreting in American Sign Language and English-based signing (transliteration) as a function of their sign language skills and preferences. In Experiments 1 and 2, groups of deaf students…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Comprehension, Deaf Interpreting, Language Skills
BURNS, REX S.; JONES, ROBERT C. – 1967
THE RESULTS OF AN EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED AT THE CENTRAL MISSOURI STATE COLLEGE INDICATE THAT IN COMPARISON TO THE CLASSROOM LECTURE APPROACH TO COMPOSITION, THE LECTURE-TUTORIAL METHOD SAVES TIME AND RESULTS IN A SHARPER FOCUS OF SUBJECT MATTER AND A MORE INTENSE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PUPIL AND TEACHER. A CLASS OF 25 STUDENTS WAS GIVEN ONE HOUR PER…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Freshmen, College Instruction, Educational Research
Ryba, Ken; McIvor, Tom; Shakir, Maha; Paez, Di – E-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology, 2006
This study examined continuous automated speech recognition in the university lecture theatre. The participants were both native speakers of English (L1) and English as a second language students (L2) enrolled in an information systems course (Total N=160). After an initial training period, an L2 lecturer in information systems delivered three…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Information Systems