Exploring teachers’ oral explanations of new English lexical items in a Chinese university: Comparisons with dictionary information

Author: Macaro, E.

Recommended by: Alicia Fernández Barrera

“This article analyses EMI teachers’ discourse in a Chinese university, particularly oral explanations of unfamiliar lexical item in EMI subjects. It is a comparative study between oral explanations and the information provided by dictionaries in order to gain insights into the challenges teachers face when putting across the meaning of words which may not have direct equivalence in both languages.”