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How to Prepare students for Oral Presentations on Expert topics

Speaking in front of a live audience on expert topics is a challenging task even for experienced professionals, let alone for first-year students ; for this reason, practicing the skill of delivering oral presentations in class is a valuable experience. To make this complex task easier to accomplish, it is necessary to break down the process of preparing for the oral presentation into individual stages and provide students with detailed instructions and explanations regarding each stage. The first stage is determining the topic and the purpose of the presentation. The second is conducting research, that is, acquiring the linguistic and expert knowledge on the topic. The third is selecting the information to be included in the presentation. The fourth is the organization of the presentation on the level of the general layout (the overall structure, deciding on the organizing principle) and the fifth is the organization of information on the level of paragraphs (the balance between the main ideas and supporting details, the background knowledge, and the new information, the transitions from topic to topic). The sixth is providing visual support in the form of guidelines and keywords intended to help the audience manage the content of the presentation, and the last is delivering the presentation, that is, what to pay attention to when addressing an audience. To reinforce the understanding of this procedure it is advisable to analyze each student’s presentation according to the success of each of these stages. So, for each presentation the class should comment on the choice of topic, the level of research (whether it was thorough, the sources used academic, etc), the informativity (whether info provided was sufficient to understand about the topic), the logic of the development of the idea of the presentation, the manner of presenting (whether the presenter seemed knowledgeable, prepared, etc.)

oral presentation, expert topic, expert knowledge, linguistic knowledge, organization of information

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