Academic Lecturing through the Medium of a Non-native Language: A Collaborative Endeavour of Lecturers and Students

Halina Chodkiewicz

doi:10.18290/rh.2019.67.11-2

Halina Chodkiewicz Pope John Paul II School of Higher Education in Biala Podlaska, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh.2019.67.11-2

Keywords: education internationalization; non-native language; academic lecture; lecture delivery styles; structuring lecture discourse

Abstract

Academic lectures are implemented as a basic genre in developing students’ disciplinary knowledge in higher education settings. Frequently appearing in their traditional monologic form, they tend to be more interactive nowadays, due to the use of a variety of activities that accompany them, including new technologies. With the internationalization of higher education, numerous lecture attendees are now multilingual students learning through the medium of a non-native language. The aim of this paper is to explore the most vital issues that emerge when lectures are delivered to non-native students at lower language proficiency level so as to enable them to meet their study goals as well as develop their intellectual and language potential. The author argues for the need of effective collaboration between lecturers and their students, based on a better understanding of the complexity of the instructional situation in which students’ language problems can be dealt with by making appropriate adjustments that can improve both lecture comprehensibility and knowledge acquisition.

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