Personal Pronouns as Guiding Strategies in Academic Lectures across Two Institutions

Studies on linguistic features employed by native-speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) lecturers when delivering academic lectures have been scarce, perhaps due to the difficulty complexity of collecting data for analysis. This paper attempts fill gap analyzing how personal pronouns I, you we are used in undergraduate engineering two instructions across different backgrounds emphasize way guide their students throughout unfolding texts. Ten (five each from a Malaysian university British university) covering fundamental courses attended second-year Civil Engineering delivered were video-recorded, transcribed, analyzed. Based eleven discourse functions that could facilitate students’ understanding lecture contents, occurred phrases clauses manifest identified analyzed compared. Findings reveal apparent similarities use NS NNS guiding follow lectures. You as most common both among three pronouns. The findings factors underline genre override all others lecturer’s delivery far concerned. nevertheless valuable training young improve efficiency, especially mobility lecturers.