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                Lecturing styles


agenda
§defining the term
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§improving the practice
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§examples to discuss
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§From “legere” in Latin meaning to read …….
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§What is  a lecture today?
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The lecture

§From “legere” in Latin meaning to read …….
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§What is  a lecture today?
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§Why do we give them?
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The lecture

-cover a certain disciplinary terrain
-amplify and contextualize the readings
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-give your research and your point of view (from informed inquiry and opinion) -give you an
opportunity to model certain reasoning processes and discourses
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-hear a full-participant or relative expert talk about the subject at length
-students see and hear  a performance

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§What similarities does a lecture have with a
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§ - text?
§ - conversation?

§high informational load
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§planned discourse
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§content high with academic prose (eg nominalisations)
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…similarities with a text:

§ you/I/we register.
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§use of the present tense
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§some unplanned discourse
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§some interaction – sharing of time and space
…similarities with a conversation:

§Where would you place your style of a lecture on an oral/literate continuum?
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§oral _______________________ literate
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examples
§example 1
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§example 2
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§example 3
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-delivery
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-organization
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-form
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-content
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-engaging students
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Better Lectures?
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Sources and links:
§Joanne Eastlake (2013): Speaking Skills in the Academci Context, seminar,
https://impact.cjv.muni.cz/publikace-a-vystupy/materialy/ (Podpora jazykových soft-skills
dovedností u akademických pracovníků (klíčová aktivita 5)
§Edward de Chazal (2014): Jurassic Academic, http://www.jurassicacademic.com/
§Emma Lay (2013): Speaking Skills for Academic Purposes, seminar,
https://impact.cjv.muni.cz/publikace-a-vystupy/materialy/ (Podpora jazykových soft-skills
dovedností u akademických pracovníků (klíčová aktivita 5)
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