Development of Linguistic Competence and Critical Thinking Skills via English Public Speaking Contest

A Case Study

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201127.096How to use a DOI?

Keywords

public English speaking contest, linguistic competence, critical thinking abilities, sociocultural theory

Abstract

This qualitative study was aimed at understanding the areas of participants’ linguistic and critical thinking development that facilitated students’ achievements in “FLTRP (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press) Cup” English public speaking (EPS) contest. A sample of five college students who were winners of EPS contest was interviewed using a semi-structured interview technique. Students’ responses revealed that sufficient input, interaction with peers and teachers played a mediating role in EPS contest and brought significant gains at speaking resource accumulation and ability training, while Q&A (Question and Answer) session triggered their ability to think and respond quickly. The results had implications to future EPS trainers on how to better prepare students’ critical thinking abilities and linguistic competence in this field. It is recommended that proper amount of mock contest be held in different classes as practice and preparation for participants’ speaking skills before the competition.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yumei Zou
AU  - P. K. Veloo
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - Development of Linguistic Competence and Critical Thinking Skills via English Public Speaking Contest
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 484
EP  - 489
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.096
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.096
ID  - Zou2020
ER  -