Lecture language in Malaysian engineering lecture Corpus
Abstract:
A lecture should contain various forms of lecture language that could help students understand the flow of
the lecture. Lecture language consists of expressions that mark the topic and plan of a lecture, and/or
expressions that signal a new or transition of ideas. Currently, a spoken academic corpus of Malaysian
engineering lectures (MASE corpus) is being developed in a joint project between Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia and Coventry University. The project focuses on lecturing style in which various pragmatic
features are being analysed. This paper presents an analysis of the use of lecture language found in the
MASE corpus.