Exploring the Functions of Okay as a Discourse Marker in an English-Medium Instruction Class

Akbaş, Erdem; Gezegin, Betül Bal

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-88597-7_12

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“…This research found that using mitigation and boosters when explaining content knowledge was critical for teachers to motivate students and transmit the most important information. Comparably, Akbaş and Bal-Gezegin (2022) studied the pragmatic use of 'okay' in EMI teaching in Turkey. They explored its use and function by one lecturer, who was found to use this PM with high frequency during content delivery.…”

Section: Research Into Bilinguals' Pragmatic Transfer and Pragmatic M...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Pragmatic Transfer: Reflecting on the Use of EMI Lecturers’ Pragmatic Markers

Han

2022

SpringerBriefs in Education

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Acknowledging the critical nature of EMI lecturers as bi- or multilinguals, this Chapter continues the investigation into cross-linguistic influence now turning attention to its pragmatic features. It focuses on the Chinese lecturers’ metalinguistic skills, particularly the L1 (Chinese) to L2 (English) transfer in their use of pragmatic markers (PMs). The investigation is informed by current studies arguing that highly proficient L2 language users do not necessarily make the most effective teachers, and the capacity to employ pragmatic strategies is essential to engage students’ learning; and that from amongst all the competencies in which lecturers should be proficient, one of the most essential is pragmatic competence. This Chapter provides an analysis of the participating EMI lecturers’ verbal characteristics of the PMs they implemented in their teaching. Whilst acknowledging individual differences, the trend of PM use and the degree of pragmatic transfer revealed in this group’s EMI teaching can be explained in terms of their pedagogical ideologies and subsequent practice, culturally influenced teacher-student relationships, the EMI discipline and its relevant subject matter and the lecturers’ language cognition as L2 users.

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Section: Research Into Bilinguals' Pragmatic Transfer and Pragmatic M...mentioning

confidence: 99%