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?
Presented by
- Dr. Averil Coxhead
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