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Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power

Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power

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General ReferenceLinguisticsTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0804726884
ISBN13: 9780804726887
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Mar 1 1996
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.01
Language: English

Education depends crucially on language: knowledge and skills are taught through a process of linguistic exchange. But how much of the language used by teachers and professors is actually understood by students? To what extent does the social background of students affect their capacity to understand the language used in the classroom or the lecture hall? Why do students and teachers overestimate the success of the educational process and underestimate the degree of misunderstanding involved?

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