Have you ever wished that you could enrich your Oral Communications classes with more personally enriching material to unlock your students’ speaking skills? Public speaking skills in a second language are a powerful confidence builder. However, developing these skills is a process which requires a careful build-up of various abilities. There are few materials which provide insight as to how to teach these skills step-wise to adult Second Language Learners.
Techniques for integrating public speaking into Oral Communications courses, engagement of the student audience as evaluators, and preparation of outstanding slides are some of the topics covered in this interactive program. Model presentations, evaluation forms and feedback techniques will be made available. Participants will take away tested, easily implementable techniques to turn Oral Communications students into confident presenters, with the potential to exceed the performance of native speakers.
9. Assumptions
• Class: Speaking related
• Level: Intermediate
• Number of students: 2030
• Time period: 8 week Flex
• 2hrs. 30 min. class period,
2x per week
– Two to 2 ½ hours for
speaking instruction per
week
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10. Assumptions
• Freedom & Control
– Teacher models
presentations
– Students given freedom
to choose themes
– Preparation time given
– Keep the “audience”
focused
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20. Assignment 2: Partner Introduction
• Interview or Story
• 2-3 minutes long
• Assign partners by
random method or
comfort factor
• Change audience
evaluation form
• No-shows: assign to
other partner
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21. #4: Partner Presentation Feedback Sheet
Evaluator’s Name: _______________________
Partner Presentation Evaluation Form
Name: ______________________________
___________________________________
Name:
Overall score: Great Job! 1 2 3 Needs work
3 Needs work
Overall score: Great Job! 1 2
Did well:
Did well:
Needs work:
Needs work:
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24. #5: How Can You Improve?
• Elements of Public Speaking: Prof. C. Costello S&L III
• Content
– Opening (question?)
– Several bullet points
• Know what to say
– Closing
• Tell the audience you are at the end
• Thank the audience for their attention
• End on a positive note
– Timing
– Questions to ask yourself
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Is it interesting for the audience?
Do you know what you want to say?
Have you practiced? (With a timer?)
What do I need to work on?
• Did you recognize what you did well?
Delivery
– Body Language
SEE HANDOUT
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25. Assignment 3: Power Point
• Model for Students (2-3 minutes)
• Allow them to suggest themes
• Write themes down to check
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28. #7: Last Feedback Before Power Point
Typical comments from the Evaluators
Well done:
Needs work:
Good voice and pronunciation
Difficulty with pronunciation
Good volume
Can’t hear you
Looks comfortable
Doesn’t look comfortable
Speaks clearly
Some words were not clear
Good speaker, interesting comments
Didn’t understand
Awesome!
Needs work
Good ending, you know what to say
Dropped ending, just walked off
Good introduction to get group interested
OK
Good eye contact
Eye contact missing
Easy to understand
Difficult to understand
Nice smile
Tense face, maybe uncomfortable or
nervous
A little fast
Good body language with eyes, hands, legs
Looks confident
Used small notes
Timing was accurate
Can’t understand because of speed
Waving hands, not looking at everyone, no
movement or too much movement
Notes were too large, or didn’t need notes
TIMING!
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29. Lab Time for PP preparation
• Students help each
other
• Encourage creativity
• Show them how to
choose and
manipulate photos
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32. Results: Much Discussion!
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