TEACHING EAP SPEAKING:
ENGAGING STUDENTS THROUGH
TRANSCRIPTS AND VIDEO
Theresa Rohlck
University of Michigan
English Language Institute
November 20, 2013
LTTC Workshop, Taipei
Using Transcripts of Authentic
Academic Spoken Language
What do we mean by “authentic”?
Where can we find it?
How can we make it accessible for
Spoken Corpora
MICASE
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
Research project started at ELI in1997
200 hours / approx. 1.8 million words
Academic speech at the University of Michigan
Office hours, discussion sections, dissertation
Spoken Corpora
COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)
BASE (British Academic Spoken Corpus)
ELFA (English as a Lingua Franca in Academic
Settings
CSPA (Corpus of Spoken, Professional American
English)
HKCSE (Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English)
VOICE (Vienna Oxford International Corpus of
Adapting transcripts for classroom use
Transcription conventions
Researchers must choose how to represent in their
transcription what was recorded
Decisions will impact future use
Readable yet still capture details of the speech event
Decisions about spelling, abbreviated forms,
punctuation, capitalization, overlapping speech (e.g.
how to consistently represent features of speech)
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English Title: Intro Biology First Day Lecture
Transcript ID: LEL175MU014
Academic Division: Biological and Health Sciences
Publisher: Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English, English Language Institute, University of Michigan
Interactivity Rating: Mostly monologic
Number of Participants:
Students: 100 Speakers: 7
Recording Date: May 5, 1998
Recording Duration: 47 minutes
Word Count: 6613
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<MICASE RECORDING ANNOUNCEMENT>S1: i think the intent is just to see if, people use big words or little in the classroom and what kind of words they use, and to
once they know that that should help them, uh train T-As, train G-S-Is help people speak English as a second language. so we'll see what comes out of it maybe i'll speak good today. <SS: LAUGH> um, okay... so let me get to my notes, so i've already introduced myself i've been at the university three years i came here from the University of Washington, um, and before that i went undergrad to uh University of Minnesota so, i've always seen this as enemy territory and, three years of cashing paychecks is, only gradually wearing me down. um, i will be the professor for the whole uh, the whole term in this course that's different uh than we normally do it and,
uh it'll be the first time in a while that one person has done the whole course. my own background is in microbiology and molecular biology which means the first half of the course is sort of my natural half of the course that's what i've taught before. when we get to the second half of the course, i'll be uh sort of winging it even more than i usually am. so, we'll see how that goes in theory if you can learn, evolution and ecology i should be able to learn it just as well and teach it to you. um, luckily i've got four very good G-S-Is that are gonna help me out this term all of them are experienced veterans and, it is one of the pleasures of teaching in spring term, besides just having a smaller class in general, that you get good veteran G-S-Is. so those four G-S-Is and we may add one more, are Tom Mills, Sara Patel, uh where is Mark and, uh Katy. Mark Lighter and Katy Kolowski, who is probably running late. in any event one of them will be your G-S-Is but all of them will have, office hours and hours in the Science Learning Center, where they can help you uh understand what i am saying. okay, um, my office hours in fact i didn't put down there, um, but they will basically be <WRITING ON BOARD> Mondays twelve to two or by appointment... so, that puts it into the same timeblock as this class and if that's a problem just call me up or, email me and set up a separate appointment. okay what will you need for this class? you will need, the textbook the textbook either comes as three softcover uh editions like this or it comes as one hardcover uh version, i don't care which you buy just make sure you buy the one with the elephant on the cover. um, this will be the same textbook that you use in Biology one fifty-four if you go on to take that course. um lab manual, is this one, that's the same one we've used uh
throughout the year so far, so it_ there should be copies of that uh in bookstores, uh you will need that starting tomorrow when labs start. coursepack is this thing that's available at Grade A Notes which is upstairs uh, in_ above Ulrich's on East U and South U they may have it downstairs on the bookshelves too i'm not sure about that. um what i have tried to do in the coursepack is, put in uh those figures that i'm going to use uh, during my lectures that i think would be helpful to you to have. for example, when i show this figure in a couple of days i'm not interested in having you guys spend three minutes taking a time-out scratching all these little bonds in okay? so i've put that overhead in there, so you can just turn to that page in the coursepack and make your notes, uh on that. some of you will wanna use it like that some of you will just note the figure number and go back to it later. i wouldn't say that this is a hundred percent necessary, it does have all of the course policies in there... but, mostly it's just figures that are already in your textbook. um and i will try and point out when a figure that i'm using up here has an equivalent in the coursepack although i tend to forget those things. um and then, lastly, there may be listed in the uh, in the bookstores an optional thing for either a C-D or a video called Sciren. what these are are sort of, a cartoon animations of, several of the im- many of the important processes that we'll be covering uh in particularly in the first half of this term. so meiosis mitosis transcription translation D-N-A replication, all those kinda things. for me personally i always found it was easier, rather than a series of pictures if i actually had, sort of a moving video that showed these processes, uh, in process or you know as they move along. i may or may not show clips from this video in class, uh it just depends on how ambitious i get. this would be an optional thing for you guys to buy if you think it's helpful i forget the price i think it's, somewhere between ten and twenty bucks, probably on the upper end of that. again, um, uh, your choice whether to buy it let me know if this is not in video s- uh in the in the bookstores. okayand
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