Changing a Traditional
Lecturing Approach into an Interactive Approach: Effects of interrupting the Monologues in Lectures.
(3) Dudley-Evans and Johns (1981) identified three types of
lecturing style: the reading style, in which lectures read aloud or deliver the lecture as if they were reading; the conversational style, in which lecturers use notes, opt for a relatively informal style and encourage student involvement; and the rhetorical style, in which lectures promote a "stage-like atmosphere" (DeCarrico and Nattinger 1988: 93) with digressions, anecdotes and jokes.
The factor which contributed to the adoption of the
lecturing method was (and still is) the ability to deal with a large number of students at the one time.
"'
Lecturing is the transference of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through the brains of either'" (ibid 3, anon.cit.)
Or, it might be that
lecturing is not the most effective means of content delivery.
Teachers always closely follow the textbook while
lecturing. The teachers go into details about each chapter of the textbook through each term.
One of the next times I made it over to the Ch'an Meditation Center, the Sunday morning lecturer talked on and on about how we must "drop the self." Did he really imagine a realization of the illusory nature of the self could be grafted on to our experience by
lecturing at us?
Awake all night, struggling with contradiction, because I had to do a lecture on it the next day and
lecturing is not easy for me.
This alternative to
lecturing can develop and enhance problem-solving skills in students.
Chief among them, she believes, is that teachers are spending more time
lecturing their classes and less time on hands-on projects.
There are also difficulties associated with formal
lecturing e.g., excessive content, short attention spans, dependence on note taking and most critically the absence of discussion or feedback5.