Sociocultural-Linguistics & Pragmatics College & University Education Poster Session
Analyzing YouTube How-To Videos to Investigate Procedural Monologues
This presentation outlines an on-going project to investigate text extracted from a 60,000-word corpus compiled from transcripts of YouTube how-to videos (e.g., how to use tools, operate machinery, navigate software applications, and other hands-on activities). Discussion includes how the study’s results will be used to compare similar texts produced by Japanese university students and the underlying goal of developing a valid pedagogical approach for teaching how to give effective procedural instructions in EFL.
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I am an associate professor at Kanazawa University, in the Faculty of Foreign Language Studies, which is a division of the Institute of Liberal Arts and Science. I have a masters degree from the University of Birmingham (UK) and am currently a PhD candidate at Kanazawa Unversity's Graduate School of Human and Socio-Environment Studies.