Academic Speech Events

Saturday 17th February 2001

CELTE, University of Warwick

Organiser: Hilary Nesi

Plenary sessions

Susan Thompson, University of Liverpool 
Intonation and the signalling of organisation in academic monologues

Nick Endacott, University of Stirling 
Linguistic representations of “other voices” in hard and soft undergraduate lectures

Tan Bee Tin, University College Chichester
Creativity, diversity and originality of ideas in divergent group discussion tasks: The role of repetition and addition in discovering new significant knowledge and ideas.

Parallel sessions

Paul Wickens, University of Warwick
Changing pedagogic orders of discourse in UK universities

Tim Kelly, University of Warwick
The EASE Listening to Lectures CD-ROM

Andrew Preshous, Solihull College
Eliciting acts used by students in academic seminars: implications

Joan McCormack, University of Reading
Review of listening material (theory and practice) for an EAP course

Gerard Sharpling, University of Warwick
The teachability of seminar skills: a re-consideration.

Sheena Gardner, University of Warwick
The nature of advice in taped oral feedback on MA assignments