Students often feel overwhelmed by the volume and complexity of knowledge and skills
required to learn. Along with this challange, educational technology has been gradually …

Multimodal competence plays a crucial role in effective interactive lecturing, especially when
the language of communication is other than one's own. This study explores an English …

The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to
sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of …

Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary
influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a …

This article introduces the special issue on questions, questioning, and institutional
practices. We begin by considering how questioning as a discursive practice is a central …

medium instruction (EMI) programmes have been mushrooming in the last two decades as
part of the internationalisation processes. However, the rapid implementation of EMI has …

Several previous studies have investigated the use of questions to facilitate interactions in
academic lectures in tertiary education. However, the issue of how disciplinary cultures …

Despite the importance of lectures in higher education, relatively little is known about lecture
discourse. To contribute to our understanding of this genre, we present a comprehensive …

La pérdida de comunicación en la clase magistral sucede cuando el docente considera,
quizá de forma tácita, que los contenidos vertidos son productos orales completos e ignora …

In lecture introductions, student engagement is important for receptivity of the lecture. The
study examined the use of personal pronouns (we, I, you) in lecture introductions in the arts …