Academic Lecture by xuanyan lin


Academic lectures are different from everyday conversation because of three reasons, language, interaction, and expectation. Firstly, there is no doubt that the lecture is a formal situation, but everyday conversation is informal. Speaker uses jargon words in a lecture, and people use general words in daily conversation. Secondly, the lecture is unidirectional, and everyday conversation is bidirectional. That means the lecture has one direct and everyday conversation has two directs. Moreover, the lecture always have a long time, and the speaker can not control, but in daily conversation, it is broken, and participants can repeat many times. Finally, the listener needs to take notes when in a lecture but do not needs to do this in everyday conversation.

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