Features making an L2 lecture more comprehensible
The following sections highlight the main features students considered important when
talking about how lecturers made the lecture material comprehensible to them. These
features are summarised in Table 2, along with the number of students who made comments
on these features. To be included as a feature more than half (nine) of the students made
similar comments about the feature. The method of reporting on the data here is mostly
descriptive, with representative comments from the students to illustrate the points made. Due to space limitations, only one or two quotations from the students are given for each
feature. These features reported on can be categorized into language features and
pedagogical features. All names are pseudonyms, and the code in brackets following the
name, e.g., (FG), refers to the mode of data.