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Direct linkCheng, 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
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
