“I Feel Nervous and Lose My Ideas When Having Presentation”: Mapping Senior Students’ Challenges in Academic Oral Presentation in English
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200827.006How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- academic oral presentation, psychological, linguistics, EFL
- Abstract
This study explored senior students’ challenges when presenting their research proposal and thesis in English. This study was conducted in the English Teacher Education Department of the University of Nahdlatul Wathan Mataram. Five students who did their final project and five lecturers who were involved in reviewing activities were investigated in this study. The results of this study were expected to better understand students’ major problems, sources of problems and how these could be tackled. A qualitative case study was employed to conduct this investigation. Observations, focus group discussions, and in-depth interviews were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed by using qualitative content analysis. The findings of this study revealed several students’ difficulties in giving oral presentations. They are: a) lack vocabulary, b) anxiety, c) poor understanding of their research proposal, d) not confident to have presentation in English, e) poor display of presentation, f) eye contact, and g) poor speaking skills including pronunciation issues. These difficulties are mostly related to psychological and linguistic aspects. This study also revealed recommendations to tackle these issues, including a) vocabulary enrichment through reading, b) presentation rehearsal, c) observing other students when having presentation, d) learning to make effective and interesting slides, e) learning most commonly used phrases for presentation, f) practice in using mind mapping and small cards to organize ideas.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Marham Jupri Hadi AU - Baiq Henny Rizka AU - Tarmizi Tarmizi PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/28 TI - “I Feel Nervous and Lose My Ideas When Having Presentation”: Mapping Senior Students’ Challenges in Academic Oral Presentation in English BT - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Education and Social Sciences (ACCESS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 20 EP - 23 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200827.006 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200827.006 ID - Hadi2020 ER -