سخنرانی های علمی انگلیسی: رشته دانشگاهی و بیان اهمیت

نوع مقاله : علمی پژوهشی(عادی)

نویسندگان

1 دانشگاه کوثر بجنورد

2 مجتمع آموزش عالی اسفراین

چکیده

هدف از انجام این تحقیق بررسی چگونگی بیان اهمیت در ارائه‌های رشته‌های علوم اجتماعی، علوم انسانی، علوم پزشکی و علوم فیزیکی است. روش تحقیق استفاده‌شده در این پژوهش ترکیبی است از یک روش پیکره-محور و تجزیه‌وتحلیل کلام. در ضمن، نشانگرهای اهمیت مطلب این مطالعه از 160 سخنرانی انگلیسی پیکره بیس استخراج‌شده‌اند. بررسی رونوشت این ارائه‌ها نشان داد، اول و مهم‌تر از همه رشته دانشگاهی برای بیان اهمیت مسئله نیست. به‌عبارت‌دیگر، سخنرانی‌های علمی رشته‌های مختلف دانشگاهی ازلحاظ بیان اهمیت تفاوت چشمگیری ندارند. دوم، مشاهده کردیم، صرف‌نظر از رشته، اهمیت مطلب را می‌توان با استفاده از یکی از پنج روش ارتباط دادن به امتحان، پوشش مفصل موضوع، ارزیابی نگرشی مطلب ازنظر اهمیت یا ارتباط، مرزبندی بین نکات و مطالب جانبی و ایجاد تعامل با مخاطب نشان داد. علاوه بر این، مشخص شد اساتید رشته‌های زندگی و علوم پزشکی بیشتر از استادان دیگر رشته‌ها تمایل دارند دانشجو را در کلام درگیر کنند. در کل، نتایج این مطالعه نشان داد اساتید دانشگاه از رشته‌های مختلف در بیان اهمیت مطلب به‌صورت تعاملی عمل می‌کنند.

کلیدواژه‌ها


عنوان مقاله [English]

English academic lectures: Field of study and importance marking

نویسندگان [English]

  • Javad Zare 1
  • Zahra Keivanlou-Shahrestanaki 2
1 Kosar University of Bojnord
2 Esfarayen University of Technology
چکیده [English]

The purpose of this study was to investigate importance signaling in the lectures of the fields of social sciences, humanities, medical sciences and physical sciences. The study was conducted based on a corpus-driven and discourse analytic approach. The importance markers in this study were extracted from the 160 English academic lectures of the BASE corpus. The results of the study showed that in importance marking the field of study of the lectures is not an issue. The results showed that signaling importance in the academic lectures of social sciences, arts and humanities, life and medical sciences and physical sciences is done through (1) dividing the lecture into points and asides, (2) using evaluative language, (3) extensive topic coverage, (4) revealing the contents of the assessment, and (5) audience engagement. The results also indicated that the lecturers in the disciplines of life and medical sciences tend more than other lecturers to have interaction with the audience.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • importance
  • Evaluation
  • academic lecture
  • Corpus
  • Discourse analysis
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