Academic interactions : communicating on campus / Christine B. Feak, Susan M. Reinhart, & Theresa N. Rohlck.
Material type: TextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780472033423Subject(s): English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers | Communication, International -- Problems, exercises, etc | English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakersLOC classification: PE1128 | .F32 2009Summary: The ability to understand and be understood when communicating with professors and with native speakers is crucial to academic success. Academic Interactions focuses on actual academic speaking events, particularly classroom interactions and office hours, and gives students practice improving the ways that they communicate in a college/university setting. Academic Interactions addresses skills like using names and names of locations correctly on campus, giving directions, understanding instructors and their expectations, interacting during office hours, participating in class and in seminars, and delivering formal and informal presentations. In addition, advice is provided for communicating via email with professors and working in groups with native speakers (including negotiating tasks in groups). The text uses transcripts from MICASE (the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) to ensure that students learn the vocabulary and communication strategies that will be most effective in their academic pursuits. Units also feature language use issues like ellipsis, hedging, and apologies.Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Gratia Christian College Library Book Shelves | Print book | PE1128 .F32 2009 (Browse shelf) | Available | 0006152E |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-203) and index.
The ability to understand and be understood when communicating with professors and with native speakers is crucial to academic success. Academic Interactions focuses on actual academic speaking events, particularly classroom interactions and office hours, and gives students practice improving the ways that they communicate in a college/university setting. Academic Interactions addresses skills like using names and names of locations correctly on campus, giving directions, understanding instructors and their expectations, interacting during office hours, participating in class and in seminars, and delivering formal and informal presentations. In addition, advice is provided for communicating via email with professors and working in groups with native speakers (including negotiating tasks in groups). The text uses transcripts from MICASE (the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) to ensure that students learn the vocabulary and communication strategies that will be most effective in their academic pursuits. Units also feature language use issues like ellipsis, hedging, and apologies.