Checking comprehension in English-medium lectures in technical and scientific fields.
The article discusses a study on interpersonal strategies adopted by Italian lecturers using English as a medium of instruction to engage students in discourse in technical and scientific fields. Topics mentioned include definition of comprehension checks (CC) in the field of Second Language Acquisi...
| Publicado en: | European English Messenger Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 22 - 30 |
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European Society for the Study of English
Summer2015
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| Sumario: | The article discusses a study on interpersonal strategies adopted by Italian lecturers using English as a medium of instruction to engage students in discourse in technical and scientific fields. Topics mentioned include definition of comprehension checks (CC) in the field of Second Language Acquisition, a table that offers information on the length of lectures and the number of tokens in the transcriptions, and the position of CCs within the utterance. |
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