TITLE:
Corpus-Based Move Analysis of TED Talks about Education
AUTHORS:
Xuwei Li, Feipeng Li
KEYWORDS:
Corpus-Based Research, Move Analysis, Oral Presentations in Academic Genre, TED Talk
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.12 No.1,
January
22,
2021
ABSTRACT: This present paper explores the rhetorical structure of some selected talks fromTEDconference under the topic of education to discuss the essential and optional moves applied in these talks. Based on the result the author tries to talk about the possibility of incorporating such instruction of oral presentation inacademicgenre incollegeEnglish classroom. The study sets up a corpus of TED talks with the tag of education to tease out the sharedstructurefeaturesand flexibility in them. The study identifies the essential and optional moves based onthe frequencyand occurrence.Meanwhile,the findings also indicate the importance oftopicand conventions of TED conferences.