Diana coaxes her landlady, Mrs. Hubbert, who also cooks for the undergraduates, to come along on the cruise to help the French students translate the English lectures (Mrs. Hubbert is of French origin).
Delivering the second annual English PEN HG Wells lecture, the Scottish writer spoke of her despair at the treatment of migrants and told her audience at the Edinburgh international book festival that the abolition of the act should be "on everyone's watch".
She brought up members of the staff from the airport, including several baggage handlers who spoke very limited English, to lecture us about seating despite the fact that we were clearly Americans and spoke little to no Spanish.
Last year, Vassar wanted to invite Denis to give a prestigious English-department lecture, and he and I wrote back and forth.
She is rabid about getting Dinah to speak the king's English and lectures her so often about cleanliness that she might as well be telling her to try to scrub her skin white.
Implications for EAP course design, teaching English for lecturing purposes, and educational research are discussed.
This active engagement and participation contradicted Chinese students' understanding of English academic lectures where they expected to be passive observers rather than being required to be active participants (Tweed and Lehman 2002).
When the priest who was my high school English teacher lectured on Walt Whitman, he said Leaves of Grass was literature, but too dirty for boys.
The famous linguist was none other than JRR Tolkien, and he made the claim in his 1955 lecture English and Welsh.
Access to the students was gained to distribute a self-administered structured and pretested questionnaire, in English, during a lecture or a pre-clinical class.
