Words Used in The Classroom. A Contrastive Lexical Analysis of Two Instances of Oral Discourse

• Authors: Valentina Carina Mureşan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper looks at the oral exchanges between two teachers and their B2-C1 level students (Common European Framework of Reference) in a particular EFL classroom, from the perspective of the Cambridge examinations assessment standard for the category of “lexical resource”. Since teachers are the role models in terms of language production in the classroom, this research focused on revealing lexical features which characterise the classroom discourse of two teachers of English and the impact this exposure has on their students’ lexical production. This research is part of my doctoral research, which is a multifaceted analysis of authentic oral classroom exchanges in order to determine patterns and practices at the level of developing speaking skills in the EFL context.

Keywords

EN

accuracy; idioms; lexical collocations; grammatical collocations; lexical resource; range

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 279-289

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Valentina Carina Mureşan

• West University of Timişoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0032