Workshop: 簡報英文工作坊

By: 洪紹挺 Shao-Ting Alan Hung, Ph.D.

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“At a funeral, people are five times more likely to want to be in the casket than giving the eulogy.”

~ Jerry Seinfeld

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Outline

1. Presentation teaching experience

2. Coaching experience

3. Multimedia in presentation training: Blog and Facebook

4. Tips for teaching presentation

5. Useful resources

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Part 1. Presentation teaching experience

Indonesian

bridging program

Business oral communicatio

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Oral Training

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Part 1. Presentation teaching experience

Class 1: Indonesian Bridging Program

Background: Government-sponsored; Intensive; College lecturers

Objectives: Improving fluency; survival skills; enhancing presentation skills;

Training task: “I wanna talk about…”

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Visit http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/talk-about

Listen to some podcasts

Prepare your own stories of 4 to 5 minutes (no more than 5 minutes). A bell will ring at 4.5 minutes. A second bell will ring at 5 minutes. You will need to stop. Do NOT go overtime. Please manage your time well.

You will share your stories on 6/4, 6/6, 6/11, or 6/13.

After your story, the class will ask questions.

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Part 1. Presentation teaching experience

Class 2: English Oral Training

Background: Two-semester course

Objectives: Improving presentation skills

Training tasks: Talk show

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Purpose:

To develop students’ ability to host a talk show in English

To enhance students’ skills in organizing ideas and presenting them in a logical and comprehensible way

To improve students’ ability in taking and answering questions

To sharpen students’ turn-taking skills in conversation

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Guideline:

• Students work in pairs and host an English talk show. The topic of the talk show can be determined by students themselves.

• Each pair has 8 - 10 minutes to host a talk show. No more than 10 mins.

• You can choose to be the host or the guest. Design the topic and content by yourselves.

• Use your imagination and make the talk show interesting.

• Make sure to rehearse the show many times.

• You will be asked to give written feedback for each talk show on the day of the shows.

• The talk shows will be videotaped.

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Host Opening—introducing the guest, warming up the

atmosphere, explaining the themes/topics of the show, breaking the ice….etc. (at least 1.5 mins)

Interviewing—asking interesting questions, following up the answers, commenting on the answers…etc.

Conclusion—wrapping up the interview, summarizing the talk show and ending the show. (at least 1.5 mins)

Guest Answering the questions enthusiastically Elaborating on your answers (In addition to yes and no, tell

us why; tell stories.)

Responsibility:

Grading criteria1. The quality of the content

4. Cooperation

2. Delivery 5. Time control3. Clarity: the logic of your explanation, reasons, and examples

6. Strong introduction and conclusion

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See student example

https://www.dropbox.com/s/spb2owp9apbnl2c/B.%20Vivian%2BTina.MPG

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Part 1. Presentation teaching experience

Class 3: Business Oral Communication

Background: Last mile program; job training

Objectives:

1) improve oral communication skills in business English,

2) increase self confidence and ability to express yourself in a variety of business situations

Training tasks: Job interviews simulations

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Popular questions for Job interview

1. What are your greatest strengths?

2. What are your greatest weaknesses?

3. What area of work are you interested in? Why?

4. Why should we hire you?

5. What interests you about our company?

6. How can your major contribute to your future performance?

7. How do you feel about a female boss?

8. Can you work under pressure? How do you do it?

9. Are you willing to travel?

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10. What are your long-term objectives?

11. What are your short-term objectives?

12. How do you hope to benefit from this job?

13. What is your feeling about working for large and small companies?

14. How did you help to increase sales and/or profits at your last job?

15. Can you delegate responsibility? Cite an example.

16. How long do you envision yourself working for this company?

17. Would you be willing to take less money?

18. What are your three greatest accomplishments in your career?

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Part 2: Coaching experience

Championship in Southern Taiwan English presentation contest

My role: Facilitator + Audience

The one that can make audiences think about themselves

Watch the clip

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Part 3: Multimedia in presentation training

What tools can greatly facilitate presentation instruction?

Select the tools that students like and often use.

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3. Multimedia in presentation training

Took 1: Blog

Tool 2: Facebook

Why should we use tools to facilitate instruction?

Vygotsky’s socio-

constructivism

ScaffoldingProject-based

learning

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Creating community of practice

Tool 1: Blog: Example

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Course: Business oral communication

Objectives:

1. Strengthen communicative skills in the workplace

2. Develop strategies for social talks, presentation, interviews, negotiation

Hours: 3 hours/per week

Participants: 17 seniors

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Selection of blogs

Criteria

1. Popularity

2. Free uploading

3. Familiarity

www.wretch.cc/video/

http://mymedia.yam.com/,

http://www.pixnet.net/,

http://vlog.xuite.net/

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Clips

Clip 1 Self- introduction (2~3 mins)

Clip 2, 3 Choose two topics from the followings(2~3 mins)1. What are your strengths and weaknesses?2. What area of work are you interested in?3. Why should we hire you?4. What interests you about our company? 5. How can your major contribute to your future

performance?6. What are your short-term and long-term

objectives?7. What is your feeling about working for large and

small companies8. Would you be willing to take less money?9. What are your three greatest accomplishments in

your career?10.Can you work under pressure? How do you do it?

Clip 4 Business presentation

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ProcessPreparatio

n and shooting

Peer feedback

Self reflection

同儕意見表 Date: ___________

姓名 : _________________ 授評同學 Comments for __________(your member’s name)

影片名稱 Clip title:

意見 Your comments:

English Name BlogNini http://blog.xuite.net/ninibeauty/job Fiona http://www.wretch.cc/album/businesspace ( 密碼 9431043)Teresa http://www.youtube.com/user/lilingshenAna http://mymedia.yam.com/m/2659125 Vera http://www.wretch.cc/blog/uknowya520 Aileen http://www.wretch.cc/album/pocadear520 Mandy http://mymedia.yam.com/m/2655716 Chloe http://blog.xuite.net/amao3000/blog/23047772 Emily http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyy4IAzUHfI

http://www.youtube.com/user/9631306Ariel http://mymedia.yam.com/m/2656102 Belinda http://vlog.xuite.net/belinda01 Sophia http://vlog.xuite.net/ying_i63 Keith http://blog.xuite.net/monogram/keithselfintro/23062643 Whitney http://aiwhitney.pixnet.net/album/set/14880717 Doris http://guccier.pixnet.net/album/Doris’introduction Portia http://vlog.xuite.net/portia7685 Jayla http://9631314.podomatic.com/

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Student examples

1. http://mymedia.yam.com/flymomoga

2. http://blog.xuite.net/ninibeauty/job

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Results: PerceptionsItems SA* A* NS* D* SD*

1. The vlog helped me organize learning in this course.

1(5.8%)

13(76.4%)

3(17.6%)

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2. The vlog is a good tool to show my learning/speaking process.

5(29.4%)

9(52.9%)

1(5.8%)

2(11.7%)

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3. The vlog represents my learning results in this course.

5(29.4%)

6(35.2%)

5(29.4%)

1(5.8%)

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4. The vlog helped me reflect on my learning in this course.

2(11.7%)

13(76.4%)

2(11.7%)

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5. The vlog increased the interaction between students and the instructor.

4(23.5%)

8(47%)

4(23.5%)

1(5.8%)

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6. The vlog is a good tool to help students learn.

3(17.6%)

9(52.9%)

3(17.6%)

2(11.7%)

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7. The vlog provides a multi-dimensional perspective about learning.

3(17.6%)

12(70.5%)

2(11.7%)

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8. The vlog will help my learning in future courses.

4(23.5%)

8(47%)

4(23.5%)

1(5.8%)

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9. The vlog helps my future independent learning.

3(17.6%)

7(41.1%)

6(35.2%)

1(5.8%)

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10. My experience of learning through a vlog in this course has been successful.

0 12(70.5%)

4(23.5%)

1(5.8%)

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11. I will use vlogs in my future learning. 2(11.7%)

9(52.9%)

6(35.2%)

0 0

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Results: Benefits

1. “I can see my own performance, including delivery, pronunciation, volume…”

2. “…unlike test, I have more time when working on my clips and I can redo the clips again and again until they look satisfactory.”

3. “I can see what my strengths and weaknesses in speaking are when comparing my previous clips with the current ones”

Results: Benefits of using vlogs

1. Visual representation 5. Wider audiences

2. Relief from time constrains 6. Peer learning

3. Self evaluation 7. Technical capability

4. Professional development

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4. “…vlogs increased my competitiveness in job-hunting. I showed my achievement to my future bosses…”

5. “I had more people other than classmates who commented on my clips…”

6. “Peer feedback points out some problems that can hardly be found by myself.”

7. “…adding hyperlinks to share learning resources…”

Results: Benefits of using vlogs

1. Visual representation 5. Wider audiences

2. Relief from time constrains 6. Peer learning

3. Self evaluation 7. Technical capability

4. Professional development

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Results: Challenges

1. “…Internet was not always stable for uploading video files…converting video files to the formats that systems supported…”

2. “…felt uncomfortable to show my own speaking to others whom I am not familiar with…”

3. “It’s hard to use vlogs to train my speaking ability because vlog is prepared while face-to-face communication is spontaneous…”

4. Time issue—consistent with previous studies (Chang & Tseng, 2009; Hung, 2006)

Challenges

1. Technical difficulties 3. Weak linkage to real-time communication

2. Affective interferences 4. Time requirement

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Tool 2: Facebook

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Facebook

Groups Wall News feed

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See students’ examples on Facebook

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4. Tips for Presentation instruction

1. Mini-presentation on interesting topic

Have the students do an individual, three to five-minute informal mini-presentation. Assign a topic of personal interest such as a favorite restaurant, hotel, recipe, etc. Students do peer feedback and give positive and constructive comments.

2. Checklist

Involve students with peer correction while practicing each step of a presentation. The students can devise a presentation checklist and evaluation sheet listing the main parts of a presentation, and including notes about visual aids. They use this sheet as a guide for comments and observations. (See sample checklist)

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4. Tips for Presentation instruction

3. Watch the clips

Monitor body language and eye contact

Discuss the impact of body language and eye contact on a good presentation. Students make a checklist of do’s and don’ts.

Students make notes and discuss positive and negative observations.

Assign students to view/listen to a prominent figure, e.g. a politician or business person, while making a speech or presentation. (This can be taken from TED website.) Students give a short report of their observations. Comment sheets.

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4. Tips for Presentation instruction

4. Write out speeches and summarize main points

Many language learners will want to write out their entire speech so they make sure the grammar is correct. Once you and their peers check their written speeches, have them create note cards with main ideas.

5. Practice

Give them plenty of time to practice, practice, practice! Practice it in front of real audiences.

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6. Multimedia

Instruct them to support concepts and main points with multimedia, images, and videos. These aids should not distract from the message. The presentation should not have too much multimedia.

7. Avoid language fillers

To deal with too many umms, ands, uhhs, students can practice with a peer who will ring a bell every time they do this.

8. Nonverbal cues

To help with eye contact, students can look at a point on the far wall and it will seem they are looking at the audience.

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9. Show good and bad examples

See example

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Part 5: Resources

TED: www.ted.com

Title of clip

Speaker

URL

Vocabulary and sentences learned

Reflection (around 200 to 300 English words)

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Part 5: Resources

Ignite: http://igniteshow.com/

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