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Peer reviewedJackson, Jane; Bilton, Linda – English for Specific Purposes, 1994
Twenty lectures by native speaker geology lecturers to nonnative speaker students were transcribed, and 921 instances of vocabulary elaboration were coded into a computer database according to 20 linguistic features. Analysis revealed noticeable variation among lecturers in language range/technicality, vocabulary elaboration, signalling, and use…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English for Science and Technology, Geology
