Communication Skills: Are Our Aims Realised?
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This document outlines a presentation on evaluating whether communication skills training realizes its aims. It describes using a project-based approach focusing on listening, speaking, and independent/group projects with no textbook. Materials included TED talks, videos on skills like note-taking, and news articles. Evaluation was both quantitative via a feedback form and qualitative via open-ended questions. Quantitative results found most students agreed the course improved their skills and abilities. Qualitatively, students reported learning language skills from presentations and collaboration/organization from group work. While some found activities boring, most saw benefits from integrating 21st century skills into language learning.
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Communication Skills: Are Our Aims Realised?
- 1. Presented by Marwa Mekni Toujani, PhD marwaISLT@gmail.com INTERLINK INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE, AL YAMAMAH UNIVERSITY RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA 02-03 October 2020 Virtual Conference Communication Skills: Are Our Aims Realised?
- 2. Outline Perception of teaching and learning : Individual and institutional views Materials used Evaluation of materials: Are our objectives met? Conclusion 2
- 3. Integrated Language Skills Approach https://elt.dinternal.com.ua/index.php?route=product/product&produc t_id=153 3
- 4. 4 21 st Century Skills Learning Skills Critical thinking Creativity Collaboration Communication Literacy Skills Information literacy Media literacy Technology literacy Life Skills Flexibility Leadership Initiative Productivity Social skills 21st Century Skills in Language Classes
- 5. Teaching Approach Project-based Approach ◦ Determined benchmarks and guidelines ◦ Components ◦ Listening ◦ Speaking ◦ ILP: Independent Listening Project ◦ ICP: Individual Core Project ◦ GCP: Group Core Project ◦ No textbook 5
- 7. YouTube Videos: ILPs 7 Nature of videos TED talks Book reviews & commentaries on famous people Talks by influential public speaksers Objectives On the themes of core projects On the 21st century skills Related to their majors Samples The 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey How to double your learning speed | Jim Kwik Most leaders don't even know the game they are in Simon Sinek at Live2Lead 2016 How Ben Franklin structured his day Michael Porter: Why business can be good at solving social problems How to solve a social problem: Rosanne Haggerty at TEDxAmherstCollege Solving problems using social innovation and entrepreneurship: Jeffrey Robinson at TEDxBroadStreet
- 8. YouTube Videos: In-class Activities How to study efficiently: the Cornell notes method Study skills listening and making notes How to give the BEST PowerPoint presentation How to give a killer presentation with no notes How to finish speaking in English Good presentation VS bad presentation How to start your presentation: 4 step formula for a killer intro 8
- 9. Useful Websites IELTSBUDDY https://www.ieltsbuddy.com/ ESL BRAINS https://eslbrains.com/ EngVid https://www.engvid.com/ Note taking https://wps.pearsonlongman.com/contemporarytopics/246/63020/161332 15.cw/index.html 9
- 10. 10 Evaluation of the Efficiency of the Materials The current small scale study Method Quantitative Qualitative Instrument Feedback form: Google forms Setting Interlink International Institutes Al Yamamah University Participants 26 3C: 65.4% 4C: 34.6%
- 12. 12 This course improved/developed----------------- my knowledge as well as my communication skills my verbal and non verbal communication skills. my intellectual and critical thinking skills. my ability to evaluate what I listen to and/or I watch. my ability to collaborate and work in teams. Strongly agree 38,5% 23,1% 34,6% 42,3% 30,8% Agree 34,6% 61% 23,1% 38,5% 42,3% Neutral 19,2% 11,5% 23,1% 15,4% 19,2% Disagree 3,8% 0% 15,4% 0% 0% Strongly disagree 3,8% 3,8% 3,8% 3,8% 7,7% Aim 1: To check whether the course succeeded in integrating learning skills, literacy skills, and life skills
- 13. Aim 2: To check whether the integration of the language skills was successful This course increased my ability to listen effectively and understand the main idea and the important details take notes effectively outline, prepare, and present my ideas do presentations Strongly agree 30,8% 38,5% 34,6% 30,8% Agree 50% 34,6% 34,6% 42,3% Neutral 7,7% 19,2% 23,1% 11,5%% Disagree 7,7% 3,8% 3,8% 7,7% Strongly disgree 3,8% 3,8% 3,8% 7,7% 13
- 14. Aim 3: To check whether my rationale behind news sharing and ILP videos was also clear to students What is your opinion about ILP/news sharing? What are the benefits of the ILP videos /news sharing? 14
- 16. 16 What have you learned from the ICP? (Sample Answers) Language skills • How I can do presentation by my own • How to present • How to do presentation alone • Speaking • Help me to improve my speaking skills • How to talk about something I like. Learning, life and literacy skills • Independence • I had learned new information • To organize my ideas • How to organize my thoughts • That I can bring ideas and do work by myself • How to be independent and do my work Zero benefits • Nothing x2
- 17. 17 What have you learned from the GCP ? (Sample Answers) Learning, life and literacy skills • How I can share with my friends and help each other how we do the project • How to work with team • How to share ideas with my friends • To work with a group • I learned how to work with others • Collaborate • Team work • that how we can distribute the work • How to be helpful with my friends • Organize the thoughts and the group work • New information Zero benefit • Nothing x3
- 18. 18 What have you learned from the in-class listening activities? (Sample Answers) Language skills • Improved my listening skills • I developed my listening skill • In class listening helps me to improve my not-taking skills Learning, life and literacy skills • They are very interesting and full of information • Provided me with important information Suggestions • I hope to have more general topics • It was good, but wasn't that interesting • I don’t like listening so, I hope that the topics are more interesting • It's boring x 2
- 19. 19 What have you learned from the in-class speaking activities? (Sample Answers) Language skills • Improve me to be better speaker • Perfect because there are a lot of academic topics • Very good to improve speaking skills • Very good and it helps me to learn new vocabulary from it :)❤️ Learning, life and literacy skills • Perfect because there is a lot of academic topics • I like it, because the topics is easy and reality and I can give to much information from it • Interesting • The topics was good for our level it wasn’t so hard and it wasn’t so easy • Your Life After 7 years • They are fun and joyful Suggestions • I think the teacher should give every student her comment alone not in the class front of the girls • It's boring! x2
- 20. Lessons Learned & Concluding Remarks 20 https://info.1in5minds.org/blog/a-strength- based-approach-to-helping-kids-with-adhd
- 21. References Stauffer, B. (2020). What Are 21st Century Skills? https://www.aeseducation.com/blog/what-are-21st-century-skills 21
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- 23. Presented by Marwa Mekni Toujani, PhD marwaISLT@gmail.com INTERLINK INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE, AL YAMAMAH UNIVERSITY RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA 02-03 October 2020 Virtual Conference Communication Skills: Are Our Aims Realised?