Issues in lecturing in a second language: Lecturer's behaviour and students' perceptions

Issues in lecturing in a second language: Lecturer's behaviour and students' perceptions

• Miller, Lindsay City University of Hong Kong

Studies in Higher Education, 32(6), 747-760, 2007

Routledge

2007

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GG Engineering, Manufacturing & Construction
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FE Medium of Instruction, Language of Teaching, Bi-& Multilingual Education, Problems of Bilingualism, Code-mixing & Code-switching
• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment

Student Attitudes Foreign Countries English (Second Language) Language Proficiency Case Studies Teacher Behavior Lecture Method Engineering Education College Students Coping Ethnography Language of Instruction Technology Integration Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This article explores how Hong Kong Chinese engineering students with low English language proficiency manage to cope with their lectures given in English. An ethnographic case study approach was used with multiple sources of data triangulated to provide a picture of the lecture event from both the students' and the lecturer's perspectives. One of the outcomes of the study, as described in this article, is that lectures have specific genres and that these genres need to be seen as more than linguistic events. By way of a case study into lecturer behaviour/intention and students' perceptions, lectures can be viewed within the wider, socially constructed context.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 03075079

• 10.1080/03075070701685163

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/f663c397

2010-09-24