學術英文演講與簡報

This course focuses on building academic English presentation skills at the B2 level to prepare students for academic success. Approximately 80% of the course content is academic-related. The course aims to develop students' ability to deliver well-structured and effective academic presentations on abstract or discipline-specific topics. Students will learn how to organize and script informative, persuasive, and demonstration-style presentations, apply appropriate academic language and rhetorical strategies, and use visual aids to enhance clarity and audience engagement. Through guided instruction, targeted pronunciation and fluency drills, and structured peer learning activities—including peer observation and feedback—students will improve their delivery, confidence, and critical awareness of effective academic presentation techniques. The course also emphasizes interactional competence in academic settings, such as participating in Q&A sessions and referring to sources appropriately. By the end of the course, students will learn to: - deliver coherent, logically organized academic presentations on abstract or discipline-related topics, using appropriate language, register, and structure - express ideas fluently and accurately, incorporating academic vocabulary and discourse markers to signal transitions, emphasis, and relationships between ideas - describe, compare, and evaluate complex information, and make logical inferences within the context of a spoken academic presentation - present arguments clearly, state positions effectively, and support viewpoints with textual and visual evidence - integrate and summarize key information from readings, visuals (e.g., graphs, charts), and other academic sources to support presentation content - construct purposeful introductions and conclusions that enhance coherence and reinforce key messages - demonstrate control of voice, pace, intonation, and body language to enhance clarity and audience engagement - speak from outlines or notes with minimal reliance on memorization, maintaining spontaneous and confident delivery - participate in academic Q&A sessions by formulating and answering questions with relevance and clarity - provide constructive feedback to peers and reflect critically on their own and others' presentations to foster academic growth and self- regulated learning

CEFR: B2

This class will follow a flipped classroom approach to learning whereby small groups of students will lead the teaching for one half of the class each week. This will allow the students to have a greater control over the content of the course and focus on skills which will improve their employability after graduation. The second half of each class will be lead by the teacher and will put an emphasis on student focused activities. Recommended reading: Presentations: Speak Smart: The Art of Public Speaking; Thomas K. Mira, Princeton Review Effective Presentations; Jeremy Comfort, Oxford University Press Speech Communication Made Simple; Paulette Dale & James C. Wolf, Longman Business Communication English for Business Communication; Simon Sweeney, Cambridge Idioms The Idiom Advantage; Dana Watkins, Pearson Education Grammar English Grammar in Use; Raymond Murphy, Cambridge University Press Useful websites; www.eslgold.com www.1-language.com/audiocourse/index.htm www.esl-lab.com www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

Students should be aware that attendance is mandatory for all parts of the course. Final grades will be calculated upon the following: Participation & Attendance (10%) Teaching Activity (30%) Oral presentations (60%) As the main objective of the course is to improve English speaking and listening, great emphasis will be placed on the effective oral production of English. This is reflected in the weighting of grades given to oral performance.

Text book: Speaking of Speech - David Harrington & Charles LeBeau, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-2307-2601-7 The course will make use of both authentic and non authentic texts, and additional handouts and resources will be used as the course progresses. A list of useful websites and other recommended reading is also included within this syllabus outline

地點

A518 of Assembly Building A (Joint Education Hall)

聯絡方式

Email: mpnicholas@nycu.edu.tw Tel: x52772