南山大学

 
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秋学期
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年次
3〜4
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CALANTAS Teresita
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副題 Advanced English Course B:Oral Presentation
授業概要 The main purpose of this course is to learn both linguistic and paralinguistic skills in Oral Presentation. In this course, you are going to develop your speaking and writing capabilities, listen to presentations, make comments, ask for clarifications or questions and express disagreement politely, support your own knowledge on the topic, or to communicate information and ideas relevant to the topic in question. You are going to do a lot Oral Presentation practice.

Oral Presentation classes meet once a week. It is a 90-minute class, divided into a short lecture, skill learning activities, and practice. Students are expected to follow lectures and read materials all in English.

Oral presentation classes may include data gathering, small group discussions, making short reports and speeches, making visual aids, handling question and answer sessions, and evaluation. There is reading and writing homework for each class, and three small tests for the whole course.
学修目標 The main goals of this course are:
1. skill development: linguistic and paralinguistic.
2. critical thinking: understand causes and effects, express correlations and oppositions, offer appropriate solutions, and evaluation based on standard or set rules of judgement.
3. professional English: develop oral presentation skills and strategies. Learn to choose appropriate vocabulary for academic writing and public speaking purposes.
4. personality development: learn how to overcome stage-fright, voice modulation and projection, making eye contact, using appropriate gestures, handling comments and questions from the audience and appropriate attire.
授業計画 The course is divided into the following 14 weeks:
1. Introduction to the course, requirements, expectations and evaluation, interview a partner.
2. Assessing your skills, dealing with anxiety, introducing your partner.
3. Planning Your Presentation, deciding topic for the Final Oral Presentation.
4. Thesis Statement, group discussion, reporting results.
5. Voice modulation and projection, Eye Contact, Rhythm, Pronunciation and Intonation.
6. Developing and Using Visual Aids, short test.
7. New Technology for Presentations: Equipment, software, posters.
8. Reporting using the Introduction of the Final Report.
9. Controlling the Presentation Environment.
10. Directing the audienceォs focus, short test.
11. Handling question and answer sessions, dealing with hostile questions.
12. Reporting using the Data and Explanation of the Final Report.
13. Appropriate Gestures and Personal Appearance.
14. Short test, Rehearsal for the Final Report.
評価方法 Assessment will include small written and oral tests, homework assignments, and the Final Report, both oral and written.
テキスト The textbooks is Effective Presentation Skills by Steve Mandel, published by CRISP PUBLICATIONS. Prints, audio, and audio-visual materials will also be used.
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