Lecturer-student interaction in English-medium science lectures: an investigation of perceptions and practice at a Sri Lankan university where English is a second language

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Lecturer-student interaction in English-medium science lectures: an investigation of perceptions and practice at a Sri Lankan university where English is a second language

This study arises from two contextualised problems faced by the students at the Faculty of Applied Sciences (FAS) of a small university in Sri Lanka. These problems are: students’ lecture comprehension difficulties and limited oral language proficiency in their second language (i.e. English). The id...

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Main Author:	Abdul Majeed, Mohamed Navaz
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Teacher-student relationships; Sri Lanka; Case studies; Interaction analysis in education; English language Study and teaching; Education; Second language acquisition
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12995/

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