{"id":62,"date":"2017-06-17T17:24:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T17:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elc.coventry.domains\/about\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2017-06-19T13:27:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:27:38","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elc.coventry.domains\/about\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC) is a growing collection of transcripts of English-medium engineering lectures from around the world. Corpus development has been assisted by a British Council PMI2 Research Cooperation grant.<\/p>\n<h5>AIMS<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>To identify and describe typical engineering lecture discourse features.<\/li>\n<li>To compare English-medium engineering lecturing styles in different parts of the world.<\/li>\n<li>To explore the current role of English-medium instruction in engineering.<\/li>\n<li>To develop and test a system of pragmatic annotation for corpora generally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Composition<\/h5>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>Coventry University (United Kingdom)<\/th>\n<th>Universiti Teknologi (Malaysia)<\/th>\n<th>University of Auckland (New Zealand)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h6>Abbreviation<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<td>UK<\/td>\n<td>MS<\/td>\n<td>NZ<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h6>Identifier series<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<td>1000-1030<\/td>\n<td>2000-2018<\/td>\n<td>3000-3028<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Civil engineering<\/em><\/td>\n<td>27<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Electrical engineering<\/em><\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Graphics<\/em><\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Mechanical engineering<\/em><\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Fluid mechanics engineering<\/em><\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Solid mechanics engineering<\/em><\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h6>Total lecturers<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h6>Total lectures<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td>28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC) is a growing collection of transcripts of English-medium engineering lectures from around the world. Corpus development has been assisted by a British Council PMI2 Research Cooperation grant. AIMS To identify and describe typical engineering lecture discourse features. To compare English-medium engineering lecturing styles in different parts of the world. To &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elc.coventry.domains\/about\/about-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;about&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elc.coventry.domains\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elc.coventry.domains\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elc.coventry.domains\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elc.coventry.domains\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elc.coventry.domains\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elc.coventry.domains\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/elc.coventry.domains\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elc.coventry.domains\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}