Summary matters: How lecturers review and preview information in engineering lectures

Sian Alsop

Abstract

This paper explores the use of summary in Engineering lectures in global contexts. Data comes from the Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC), which contains transcripts of 78 lectures (c.500,000 tokens) delivered in English in institutions in New Zealand, Malaysia and the UK. Techniques from corpus linguistics and data visualisation are used to show when and how lecturers use preview- and review-type summaries. Results indicate macro-level patterns in usage that challenge some established views about the nature of lecture discourse, and also distinctive micro-level language features. These results can be used to inform lecture design and delivery.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 5 Jul 2018
Event	Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference: Teaching in the Spotlight: Learning from Global Communities - Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom Duration: 3 Jul 2018 → 5 Jul 2018 https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/training-events/events/annual-conference-2018 https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/training-events/hea-annual-conference-2018-teaching-spotlight-learning-global-communities

Conference

Conference	Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference
Abbreviated title	Learning from global communities
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Birmingham
Period	3/07/18 → 5/07/18
Internet address	https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/training-events/events/annual-conference-2018 https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/training-events/hea-annual-conference-2018-teaching-spotlight-learning-global-communities

Keywords

lecture
summary
engineering
corpus linguistics

2 Conference proceeding

The pragmatic annotation of a corpus of academic lectures
Alsop, S. & Nesi, H., 2014, LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Declerck, T., Loftsson, H., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Moreno, A., Odijk, J. & Piperidis, S. (eds.). p. 1560-1563
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

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The summarising function of university Engineering lectures: A cross-cultural perspective
Alsop, S. & Nesi, H., 2013, Multilingual Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics : Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics.. Archibald, A. (ed.). London: Scitsiugnil Press & British Association for Applied Linguistics, p. 11-14 4 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

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Summary matters: How lecturers review and preview information in engineering lectures

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The pragmatic annotation of a corpus of academic lectures

The summarising function of university Engineering lectures: A cross-cultural perspective

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