DEVELOPING THE SPEAKING SKILL FOR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS THROUGH ORAL PRESENTATION

Tóm tắt

Speaking is one of the skills that EFL learners find it difficult to achieve. This can be applied to EFL students whose majors are not English. However, the speaking competence is really necessary for students after graduating from universities due to the job requirements in the global integration time. Therefore, it is comparative that there should be certain strategies to help students develop their speaking skill. Recently, oral presentation has been employed for this purpose, yet there have been different ideas about its real effects on students as well as ways of exploiting it. This investigation was carried out to explore this issue from the perspectives of teachers and students. The results show that oral presentation activities are essential for students’ speaking enhancement, and oral presentation does have a great impact on students’ vocabulary, pronunciation, and confidence which are crucial for their speaking performance. Moreover, ways of carrying out oral presentation for the best results have also been suggested.