Tutorials and laboratories at university: A vocabulary perspective

What vocabulary do learners need to cope with speaking in tutorials and laboratory sessions and can textbooks, word lists and corpus-based studies help?

Lectures, talks and seminars

Murphy Lecture Theatre 101 (MYLT101)

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Description

This talk looks at vocabulary in tutorials and laboratories in five ways. It begins with a report on interviews with lecturers and students about speaking in small group academic interactions. Results from an analysis of EAP/ESP textbooks in relation to tutorials and laboratories follows, along with a comparison between phrases suggested in the textbooks and a corpus-based study. The next part looks at a corpus-based analysis of both single and multi-word unit academic word lists for academic purposes. The talk will conclude with a discussion of possible suggestions for pedagogy, textbook writers and future research.


Speaker Bios

Averil Coxhead is an Associate Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies


For more information contact: Rachael Ruegg

rachael.ruegg@vuw.ac.nz 04 4635628