Class 1 Lecture:
- “using phrases like ‘You know , sometimes we believe that…’.” (25/08/2015)
- “While doing so, she often uses the phrase ‘you know’. (01/09/2015)
Class 1 Tutorial:
- “[…] until someone told her: ‘You don’t sound like an academic’ and she answered: ‘Well, because I don’t use all those big words’. ‘L2 is L2’, she adds.” (03/09/2015)
- “‘I guess that’s why I didn’t get a job at X, I was too black and too loud’, she says laughing.” (29/10/2015)
- “Sometimes, she adds, it is easier to read those then an academic article ‘with all those disgusting words in it’.” (29/10/2015)
- “I would say that my classes are less formal”
Class 2 Lecture:
- “But he admits: ‘As I keep saying: The UN is a monster of an organisation.’” (29/10/2015)
- “I::: attempt to be an academic .And I really need to have ehm supported arguments.”
- “I like to think myself as a little bit more academic orientated. () Ehm I do do try to use a lot of evidence to support my arguments and not just be my opinion.”
- “they’re really chatty and friendly and not all academic”
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