A study of lecturing styles in Malaysia and the UK

This is a PMI 2 Connect Research Co-operation project funded by the British Council (RC 90) March 2008-March 2010. The project is also contributing to the Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC).

Aims

1. To investigate the use of English in engineering lectures, in order to:
   • Identify and describe typical lecture discourse features
   • Compare English-medium lecturing styles in Malaysia and the UK
   • Explore the current role of English-medium instruction in Malaysian HE 
2. To develop a small pilot corpus of spoken academic discourse, in order to:
   • Develop staff skills in corpus linguistics and corpus compilation
   • Create a resource for use in staff development, lecturer training and EAP instruction