Lecturing undergraduate science in Danish and in English: A comparison of speaking rate and rhetorical style

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 209-221

  Thøgersen, Jacob ^a   Airey, John ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disciplinary discourse; L2 lectures; Rhetorical style; Speaking rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956059061     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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