Communications: Oral Presentations

 “This page comprehensively covers all topics related to oral presentation, from understanding your audience, to developing a presentation clear structure and delivery. Useful detailed information for all undergraduates, especially those inexperienced in giving presentations, or who haven't given presentations for some time.” 

The Effects of Awareness-Raising Training on Oral Communication Strategy Use
 

”This study examines current patterns of oral communication strategy (OCS) use, to what degree these strategies can be explicitly taught, and the extent to which strategy use can lead to improvements in oral communication ability.”

Incorporating Oral Assignments

 “This page provides the rationale for including communication activities in classes throughout the liberal arts curriculum.  Also included are some things to consider when planning to incorporate oral activities in class.”

 Improving Adult English Language Learners’ Speaking Skills

“This digest describes what speaking involves and what good speakers do in the process of expressing themselves. It also presents an outline for creating an effective speaking lesson and for assessing learners' speaking skills.”

 Oral Communication Homepage

 “This website offer a range of resources, including video clips, discussion points, downloadable guidance and self-assessment tools, to help you to develop oral communication techniques.”

 Oral Communication Toolkit

 “Communication skills include the mix of verbal, interpersonal and physical strategies needed to interact confidently and effectively with a range of audiences.”  This website offers teaching tips on developing oral communication skills and principles of effective oral communication skills.

 Strategic Needs of ESL Students in Developing their Literary Competence

 “Considering the inefficiency of Iranian ESL students in coping with literary texts, the researchers have designed this research in order to spot their likely strategic deficiencies.”

 Strategies to Improve Students’ Presentation Skills

 “The main purpose of this paper is to identify a few possible reasons for many students’ inability to effectively deliver presentations and to discuss five training strategies designed to help students develop a proficiency in the area of oral presentation delivery.”

 Teaching Oral Communication Skills in Academic Settings: A Case Study in Task-based Approach to Syllabus Design

“This paper describes the applications of the task-based approach to designing a syllabus for an oral communication skills course in an academic setting. It discusses the goals of the course within the relevant institutional contexts, outlines the principles of the task-based design, describes and classifies the tasks, and provides a descriptive account of the organization and sequencing of the tasks in the course schedule. It argues that such an approach has much potential in second language curriculum development.”

Teaching Speaking: Activities to Promote Speaking in a Second Language

“The ability to communicate in a second language clearly and efficiently contributes to the success of the learner in school and success later in every phase of life. …. With this aim, various speaking activities such as those listed above can contribute a great deal to students in developing basic interactive skills necessary for life. These activities make students more active in the learning process and at the same time make their learning more meaningful and fun for them.”

Accessed 17 September 2007