Open AccessInvestigating How Students Transfer a Source Text into Speech through Lesson Study
Author(s) -
İlknur Bayram,
Çisem Altuğ,
Firdevs Pelin Dereli,
Gökhan Yıldız,
Yakup Uzun
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2017.v13n32p49
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , sentence , mathematics education , psychology , pedagogy , computer science , natural language processing , medicine , radiology
This study was designed to explore how students enrolled at the English Academic Presentation Skills and English for Logistics Courses transfer a piece of written text into speech. Designed as a Lesson Study Project, this study was carried out during the 2016-17 Fall Semester by five teachers with the participation of 68 students from three different departments and four different classes. Data in this qualitative case study was gathered through four research lessons, classroom observations, student interviews and analysis of student work. Findings of the study revealed that students tend to make changes in a written text in five different ways to be able to present it orally. These changes fall under the headings of organizational changes, sentence level changes, summarizing the text, using key details and use of transitions.