%0 Journal Article
%T Syntactic Mechanisms in the Transition from Academic Written to Oral Discourses
%A Ricardo Nausa
%J -
%D 2017
%R https://doi.org/10.14483/22487085.11765
%X Abstract (en_US) This article presents the results of a pilot study that sought to identify: (1) the syntactic mechanisms that a group of PhD-level Colombian EAP students used to express originally written content in oral presentations, and (2) how those mechanisms can be used to describe the differences of performance between high- and low-rated presentations. To achieve these objectives, a discourse analysis comparison of eight parallel pairs of texts (eight essays and their corresponding oral presentation transcriptions) was performed. Quantitative analyses were also performed to confirm the qualitative analyses. Syntactic modifications to clause structure and heavily modified noun phrases were identified as some of the mechanisms that students used to transition from written to oral discourse. The analysis of these mechanisms includes the description of further sub-mechanisms, the linguistic resources that are implemented, their pragmatic appropriateness, and their grammatical correctness. Among the sub-mechanisms deemed as useful indicators of quality of oral performance are topicalization and reduction of heavily modified NPs. Other sub-mechanisms such as the rhematization of NP modifiers were not useful to discriminate among levels of oral performance. This report ends with the presentation of the implications and limitations of the study, and the perspectives for future research. Abstract (es_ES) Este art赤culo presenta los resultados de un estudio piloto que busc車 identificar: (1) los mecanismos sint芍cticos utilizados por un grupo de estudiantes colombianos de EAP a nivel de doctorado para expresar contenidos originalmente escritos en presentaciones orales y (2) c車mo estos mecanismos pueden ser utilizados para describir las diferencias de desempeˋo entre las presentaciones de alta y baja calificaci車n. Para lograr estos objetivos, se realiz車 una comparaci車n de an芍lisis de discurso de ocho pares paralelos de textos (ocho ensayos y sus correspondientes transcripciones de presentaciones orales). Tambi谷n se realizaron an芍lisis cuantitativos para confirmar los an芍lisis cualitativos. Los mecanismos identificados fueron las modificaciones sint芍cticas a (1) la estructura de las cl芍usulas y (2) las frases nominales altamente modificadas. El an芍lisis de estos mecanismos incluye la descripci車n de sub-mecanismos adicionales, los recursos ling邦赤sticos que se implementaron, su adecuaci車n pragm芍tica y su correcci車n gramatical. Entre los sub-mecanismos que se consideran como indicadores 迆tiles de la calidad del desempeˋo oral se encuentran la topicalizaci車n y la
%K academic discourse
%K EAP
%K EFL
%K information structure
%K oral presentations
%K syntactic modifications discurso acad谷mico
%K estructura de la informaci車n
%K ingl谷s para prop車sitos acad谷micos (EAP)
%K ingl谷s como lengua extranjera (EFL)
%K modificaciones sint芍cticas
%K presentaciones orales
%U https://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/11765