Incorporating Nonverbal Communication Skills into Teaching and Learning English Presentations
- DOI
- 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.276How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- English presentations; teaching and learning; nonverbal communication
- Abstract
Delivering a presentation is more than just giving information; it also aims to entertain, inspire, motivate and even to activate the listeners. To obtain the expected results, a presenter must attract his audience’s attention sufficiently and communicate his thoughts and feelings adequately by also implementing nonverbal communication elements, i.e. vocal and body language. Furthermore, presentation skill is very important in the work place, but delivering presentations has undeniably been a distressful task for most people. This study aims to share the experience of teaching Business English Presentations in the Polytechnic of LPKIA Bandung and to reveal the positive impacts of integrating nonverbal communication skills in the teaching and learning English presentations. The method used is descriptive analytics, and the data collecting techniques are library research, observation and interview. The study comprises several stages from designing the syllabus of the subject to observing students’ performance during the final examination. The study unveils that during the final examination, students mostly managed to perform more-natural nonverbal communication elements, showed greater confidence, and communicated better in their presentations. It can be concluded that incorporating nonverbal communication elements can take the learners out of their comfort zone and improve their English presentation skills.
- Copyright
- © 2019, 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 - Tjang Kian Liong PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - Incorporating Nonverbal Communication Skills into Teaching and Learning English Presentations BT - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 315 EP - 325 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.276 DO - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.276 ID - Liong2019/06 ER -