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2017 | 11 | 1 | 50-56

Article title

Learning from an academic lecture in a foreign language: a lesson for the lecturer

Content

Title variants

PL
Uczenie się z wykładu akademickiego w języku obcym: wnioski dla wykładowcy

Languages of publication

EN

Abstracts

EN
Introduction. The article explores the role of an academic lecture in gaining disciplinary knowledge and developing domain-specific language in a foreign language context. The current study aimed to investigate how students’ knowledge on a selected topic changed after they had participated in a lecture. Materials and methods. A small-scale qualitative-quantitative study was conducted in a natural context of a lecture delivered to the students of English philology. The students’ statements depicting their knowledge on Communicative Language Teaching provided before and after the lecture were compared in order to examine the information they gained from the lecture content. Results and conclusions. Having listened to the lecture, reviewed their notes and reflected on its contents, the students formulated longer and more precise statements, more frequently commented on the relevant concepts and assumptions, and verbalized them better. The procedure used activated the students’ processing of the content of the lecture and showed the lecturer what kind of information the students focused on.
PL
Wstęp. A rtykuł omawia r olę w ykładu a kademickiego w przyswajaniu w iedzy o raz t erminologii w zakresie danej dziedziny w języku obcym. Celem badania była ocena zmiany, jaka zaszła w wiedzy posiadanej przez studentów na wybrany temat po wysłuchaniu wykładu. Materiał i metody. Przeprowadzono badanie jakościowo-ilościowe na małej próbie studentów filologii angielskiej w naturalnym kontekście wygłoszonego dla nich wykładu. Porównano wypowiedzi studentów odzwierciedlające ich wiedzę na temat podejścia komunikacyjnego w nauczaniu języków obcych sformułowane przez nich przed i po wykładzie, co umożliwiło analizę informacji przyswojonych prze studentów na podstawie treści wykładu. Wyniki badań oraz wnioski. Po wysłuchaniu wykładu, przejrzeniu notatek i refleksji nad jego treścią studenci konstruowali dłuższe i bardziej precyzyjne wypowiedzi, częściej komentowali na temat ważnych konceptów i założeń, jak również lepiej je wyrażali pod względem językowym. Dzięki zastosowanej procedurze studenci aktywnie przetwarzali zawartość wykładu, a wykładowca uzyskał informacje o tym, jakie treści skupiły ich uwagę.

Year

Volume

11

Issue

1

Pages

50-56

Physical description

Dates

published
2017

Contributors

  • Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa im. Papieża Jana Pawła II w Białej Podlaskiej

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Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

ISSN
2081-6081

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.desklight-14397c10-5da9-4657-a35d-0daccf521370
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