scholarly journals ORAL PRESENTATION STRATEGY FOR ENHANCING ENGLISH SPEAKING PROFICIENCY TO NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Author(s):  
Thao Hieu Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Oral Presentation ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Dynamic Learning ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
English Major ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Student Grades ◽  
Oral Presentations

This paper presents an integratedskill approach of using oral presentations as an interactive teaching tool in non-English major classrooms, specifically in the context of Tra Vinh University. This paper has the following sections: (1) introducing the context of teaching and learning English and the factors affecting students’  speaking ability in Vietnam and in several other countries; (2) presenting the benefits of integrating oral presentation in the classroom; (3) proposing suggestions that help EFL teachers to apply this approach effectively. The result shows that four main factors, which affect students’ speaking ability, are a lack of topical  knowledge, low self-esteem, limited chances of practice and the overuse of mother tongue. By giving presentation, students have a higher level of confidence, speak correctly, use more vocabularies, and develop other language skills as well as soft-skills. However, teachers need to instruct students clearly; reduce pressure on student grades and make effective feedback to individual. Besides, students need encouragement to create dynamic learning environment. It is hoped that the pedagogical ideas presented in this paper can help teachers effectively employ oral presentations as a means of improving students’ English speaking ability.

scholarly journals ORAL PRESENTATION: AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO ENHANCE NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS’ SPEAKING PROFICIENCY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (35) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Thao Hieu Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Oral Presentation ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Dynamic Learning ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
English Major ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Student Grades ◽  
Oral Presentations

This paper presents an integrated-skill approach of using oral presentations as an interactive teaching tool innon-English major classrooms. This paper has the following sections: (1) an introduction of the context of teaching and learning English and the factors affecting students’ speaking ability in Vietnam and in several other countries; (2) a presentation of the benefits of integrating oral presentation in the classroom; and (3) suggestions to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers to apply this approach effectively. The researcher applied this approach to two groups of medical students. The result shows that four main factors, which affect students’ speaking ability are a lack of topical knowledge, low selfesteem, limited chances of practice and theoveruse of mother tongue. By giving presentations, students have a higher level of confidence, speak correctly, use more vocabulary, and develop other language skills as well as soft-skills. However, teachers need to instructstudents clearly, reduce pressure on student grades and give effective individual feedback. Furthermore, students need encouragement to create a dynamic learning environment. It is hoped that the pedagogical ideas presented in this paper can help teachers effectively employ oral presentations as a means of improving students’ English-speaking ability.

Engineering Students' Communication Apprehension and Competence in Technical Oral Presentations

2016 ◽  
pp. 371-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Raha Mohd Radzuan ◽  
Sarjit Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Oral Presentation ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Communication Competence ◽  
Public Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Oral Presentations

The demand for 21st century engineering graduates to be communicatively competent, particularly in English language, is increasing. Effective communication skills are one of the main competencies listed by the Malaysian Engineering Accreditation Council Policy with the expectation that all Malaysian engineering graduates will master it upon graduation. This involves skills in presenting information to technical and non technical audience through oral presentations. This chapter aims to examine engineering students' communication competence and their level of apprehension in delivering a technical oral presentation. Questionnaires, adapted from McCroskey's (1988) Self-Perceived Communication Competence and Richmond & McCroskey's (1988) Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety, were distributed to 193 final year Universiti Malaysia Pahang engineering students who were preparing for their Undergraduate Research presentation. The results of the study have direct and indirect implications to the teaching and learning of oral presentation skills among engineering undergraduates.

scholarly journals Teaching the Nation: Literature and History in Teaching English

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Onoriu Colăcel
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Teaching English as a foreign language is rooted in the national interest of English-speaking countries that promote their own culture throughout the world. To some extent, ‘culture’ is a byword for what has come to be known as the modern nation. Mainly the UK and the US are in the spotlight of EFL teaching and learning. At the expense of other, less ‘sought-after’ varieties of English, British and American English make the case for British and American cultures. Essentially, this is all about Britishness and Americanness, as the very name of the English variety testifies to the British or the American standard. Of course, the other choice, i.e. not to make a choice, is a statement on its own. One way or another, the attempt to pick and choose shapes teaching and learning EFL. However, English is associated with teaching cultural diversity more than other prestige languages. Despite the fact that its status has everything to do with the colonial empire of Great Britain, English highlights the conflict between the use made of the mother tongue to stereotype the non-native speaker of English and current Anglo- American multiculturalism. Effectively, language-use is supposed to shed light on the self-identification patterns that run deep in the literary culture of the nation. Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) encompasses the above-mentioned and, if possible, everything else from the popular culture of the English-speaking world. It feels safe to say that the intractable issue of “language teaching as political action” (Cook, 2016: 228) has yet to be resolved in the classrooms of the Romanian public schools too.

scholarly journals Changes in and Effects of TED Talks on Postgraduate Students’ English Speaking Performance and Speaking Anxiety

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-118
Author(s):  
Meihua Liu
Keyword(s):  
Situated Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Speaking Performance ◽  
Oral Presentations ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Ted Talks

This research study explored the changes in and effects of TED talks on Chinese postgraduate students’ English speaking performance and speaking anxiety over a period of 10 weeks. In this research, TED talks were used as a learning mode to provide a quasi-realistic sociocultural context for speaking English. 166 students from the experimental group using TED talks and 156 in the conventional mode participated in the quasi-experiment. They made eight-minute oral presentations and answered the 12-item English Speaking Anxiety Scale prior to and after the experiment. Analyses of the data revealed three major findings: 1) both the experimental and control groups did significantly better in English speaking performance and became significantly less anxious about speaking English over the 10-week period, 2) the experimental group did significantly better in move structure and were significantly less anxious about speaking English than the control group at the end of the 10-week period, and 3) the learning modes had a significant effect on students’ move structures of oral presentations but had no effect on their oral presentation performance and English speaking anxiety. These findings support the benefit of supplementing EFL (English as a foreign language) teaching and learning with TED talks and other similar virtual situated learning. Thus, the present study not only contributes to the current literature, which is short of studies on the effects of technology on SL/FL teaching and learning and the dynamic characteristic of the emotions associated with SL/FL learning, but also suggests that virtual situated learning like TED talks should be incorporated into SL/FL teaching and learning.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON SPEAKING SKILL ACTIVITIES IN AR-ROHMAH ENGLISH COMMUNITY PROGRAM IN SMA AR-ROHMAH MALANG

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Adnin Hayatinnufus
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Science Writing ◽  
Community Program ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Learning English

Ar-rohmah English Community is an extracurricular program which provides time and creates opportunity to learn English speaking skill. The aims of this study are to describe kinds of speaking activities used in Ar-Rohmah English Community Program in SMA Ar-Rohmah Malang, to find out the problems related to teaching and learning English speaking skill activities in AEC Program and to investigate the solutions for the problems. The use of research design in this study was descriptive qualitative in which the instrument used to get the data were observation, questionnaire and interview. It was presumed as the proper design in order to attain the purpose in overcoming and solving the research problems. This study obtained the data from twenty-four students and two English teachers who were involved in the AEC Program. After analyzing the data, it is found that English teachers use seven speaking activities in Ar-Rohmah English Community Program. Those seven activities are free speaking, card game, watching movie, interview, storytelling, science writing presentation and dialogue activities. Furthermore, the problems found related to teaching and learning English speaking skill are derived from linguistic and non-linguistic factors. From linguistic factors, it is found that the students face the difficulty on mastering vocabulary, choosing appropriate grammar, lacking of pronunciation experience and not habituated with English. Moreover, from non-linguistic factor, they are reluctant to speak in English because they are inhibited, have nothing to say, have low participation and feel ease and safe using mother tongue language. Besides, the teachers face the difficulty such as get tired to handle a large class with only two teachers, confused to choose suitable activity, do not remember students’ names, hard to motivate the students to speak in English and lack of preparation time. In addition, other activity which is Pandu Hidayatullah influences the students’ passion toward AEC Program. Dealing with those problems, the teachers keep creating creative, fun and interesting activity to improve the students’ vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and familiarized the students with English. By creating regulations, they solve the problems of students’ low motivation to use English hard to push the students using English

scholarly journals Communication Skills and Reflection Practice in Smart English Teaching and Learning Environment: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (17) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Hong Thu
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
English Major ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Smart Education ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Learning English

The development of information technology (IT) has made a lot of positive changes in language teaching approaches and made significant innovations in educational quality. In learning a language generally and specific skills in particular, it is essential for learners to reflect on what they experienced. Through reflection, teachers and students are able not only to look back to the past happenings, but also to make some necessary changes. Thanks to the support from technology devices, reflective practice (RP) in teaching and learning has become more convenient, especially in smart education environment. This paper is aimed at investigating the evaluation and perception of students on the effects and challenges of using information technology to enhance communication skills and Reflection Practice in teaching and learning English speaking skills and recommending some technology-assisted teaching strategies. In order to examine this, a set of questionnaires, interviews and reflection journals were administered to 80 English major students at Hanoi Law University and six teachers who have taught English speaking skill. The findings showed that using technology-driven teaching approach in RP helped learners achieve more benefits for learning English speaking.

Keterampilan Berbicara Bahasa Inggris Mahasiswa PNP dan Hubungannya dengan PBM Bahasa Inggris pada SMA dan SMK

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
Husna Maani ◽  
Baetty Baetty ◽  
Welsi Haslina
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Learning Situation ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Vocational High Schools ◽  
Study Context

This study is a mixed methods case on English students in a Vocational Higher Education Institution (VHEI) in West Sumatera. It is aiming at investigating factors that influence English proficiency within this case study context by referrin g it to English teaching  and  learning  experience  in  high  schools.  This  research  attempt  was  specified  into  measuring:  (a)  the  differences  and correlation between the students English learning process at both vocational high schools and high schools in general in West Sumatera and the English skills of VHEI students. The methods of data collection are students’ survey, unstructured interview with teachers, and observations at 5 high schools and 5 vocational high schools in 5 different regencies in West Sumatera.  The findings reveal that only16.7% of the VHEI have the score ranged 50-75 on dan 83.23% students has very limited English speaking proficiency by the score 0-50.It is also found : (a) learning processes is similar to the learning situation at the VHEI  and there is significant correlation between these two learning situation, (b) students’ achievement in other subjects do not differ from their English speaking skill and there is no significant correlation between these two variables,

scholarly journals DEVELOPING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS: Barriers faced by the Bangladeshi EFL learners

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Md. Mohsin Mridha ◽  
Sheikh Md. Muniruzzaman
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Basic Skills ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Global Age ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

This study aimed at investigating the prevailing barriers for developing English speaking skills faced by the undergraduate level students in Bangladesh. The attempt was to locate the importance of speaking proficiency in English as one of the basic skills of a language in this “English” era. In this global age, the use of English has been inevitable, and it is used in different phases of our life. But Bangladeshi EFL learners often fail to attain proper speaking proficiency for some reason. This nature of the study was quantitative, and the data collection tool was questionnaire. This paper is presenting the problems and plausible recommendations in order to develop speaking. The reasons behind the incompetency in speaking skills are many and some of which are the influence of mother tongue, lack of vocabulary, lack of practice, unfavorable environment, teachers’ non-cooperation, shyness, fear, and language ‘fossilization.’

scholarly journals An Investigation of Anxiety Factors During English Oral Presentation Skills of Engineering Undergraduates in Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Muhammad Arif Soomro ◽  
Insaf Ali Siming ◽  
Syed Hyder Raza Shah ◽  
Mukhtiar Ali Rajper ◽  
Sadia Naz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Oral Presentation ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
First Year ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Oral Presentations ◽  
Engineering Undergraduates

This study aims to investigate the factors affecting oral presentation skills of undergraduate-learners of English that influence their academic performance which potentially can affect professional career. The study has used quantitative instrument as questionnaire partially adopted from McCroskey (1982) for data collection among 100 undergraduate-participants on factors affecting oral communication skills at one Public Sector University. Purposive sampling method was used since participants were selected on specific criteria of only first year engineering undergraduates. The data were analysed through SPSS, v.20 for obtaining percentage, mean, median, standard deviation, and standard error of mean to be measured. The findings revealed that oral presentation skills as the most problematic for engineering undergraduates. The results also revealed that the several factors affected engineering undergraduates’ oral presentations.

scholarly journals The The Role of Tongue Twister to Improve the Students’ Speaking Skill

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-345
Author(s):  
Yuni Yuniar ◽  
Muhammad Reza Pahlevi ◽  
Nia Hoerniasih
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Tongue Twister ◽  
Main Language

Recently the ability to English speaking is very necessary since English has become a foreign language in Indonesia. A correct speech is become crucial to avoid misunderstanding conveying the information to the listener. Therefore, teaching English speaking is very necessary to the teacher in improving the students’ speaking skills. The main reason why learning to speak English is very difficult for the students is because students often use the Indonesian language (mother tongue) as the main language and are not accustomed to speaking in English in their daily life. One of the alternatives technique that can be used by the teacher is using tongue twister. The aims of this study is to explore about what are the problems that faced by the students while learning English speaking in Tongue Twister assisted. The classroom action research is a method that conducted in this research. There are two Cycles in this research and both of cycles showed of 77.14% of students has obtained a score of 75 and 77.13%. This result shows that the students have met the success criteria of the research and the students actively participate in the teaching and learning processes during English-speaking class.

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