English for Academic Purposes (EAP): Speaking and Presentation Skills

1. English Academic Skills
Developing a Good Presentation
By: Iwan Syahril

2. WHAT AREYOUR GOALS?
• Understanding the anxiety.
• Organizing data and thoughts.
• Developing enthusiastic and dynamic presentation.
• Dealing with questions and answers.
• Constructing visual aids.

3. PREPARING A PRESENTATION
1.Analyzing your audience.
2. Develop good arguments with clear reasons and examples.
3. Brainstorm main ideas.
4. State the sub-points.
5. Develop introductions and conclusions.
6. Formulate preview/review sentence.
7. Develop slides or other visual aids.
8. Develop handouts.

4. 1.ANALYZINGYOUR
AUDIENCE
• Needs.
• Attitude.
• Knowledge level.
• Environment.
• Demographic information.

5. 2. DEVELOPING ARGUMENTS
+ REASONS & EXAMPLES
• Tell the audience what you
personally think about the
topic.
• Say it clearly at the beginning
of presentation.
• Back up your arguments
with facts/data.
• Cite the sources.

6. 3. BRAINSTORM MAIN IDEAS
• Generate as many ideas as
possible.
• Let ideas flow.
• Edit later.

7. 4. STATETHE SUBPOINTS
• Evidence that support the
main ideas.
• They may be: facts, data,
references, stories, analogies,
etc.

8. 5. DEVELOP INTRODUCTIONS
& CONCLUSIONS
• Anecdote.
• Humor.
• Involving question.
• Rhetorical question.
• Shocking statement.
• Quotation.

9. 6. FORMULATE
PREVIEW/REVIEW SENTENCE
“Tell them what you’re going
to tell them -
Tell them -
Then tell them what you told
them!”

10. 7. DEVELOP SLIDES OR OTHER
VISUAL AIDS
• Make visuals big enough to
see.
• Make text and numbers
legible; minimum font size is
24 pt.
• Use color carefully.
• Use animation carefully.

11. 8. DEVELOP HANDOUTS
• Before the presentation.
★ Allow audience to read the
handout before the
presentation.
• During the presentation.
★ If not careful, it can be a
distraction.
• After the presentation.
★ Let audience know that they
will get the handout later.

12. Think back at the time when you watched great
presentations.What made them great?Think silently for 30
seconds, then freewrite in your journal.

13. INYOUR GROUP
List the elements/factors that make a good presentation.You
may use the ideas you already wrote down in your journal.

14. PREPARING A PRESENTATION
1.Analyzing your audience.
2.Develop good arguments with clear reasons and examples.
3.Brainstorm main ideas.
4.State the sub-points.
5.Develop introductions and conclusions.
6.Formulate preview/review sentence.
7.Develop slides or other visual aids.
8.Develop handouts.

15. ENGAGINGYOUR AUDIENCE:
“IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT WHATYOU SAY, BUT HOWYOU SAY IT!”
• Communicate with enthusiasm.
• Cool, calm, and confident.
• Seek a natural and conversational
style.
• Relate to people in the audience.
• Audience-friendly.

16. QUESTION-AND-ANSWER
TECHNIQUES
• Encourage audience to ask
questions.
• Step toward the audience, raise
your hand, and ask:
“Does anyone have questions
for me?”
“What questions do you have?”

17. LISTENING ATTENTIVELYTO
QUESTIONS
• Take notes.
• Look at the questioner, and
watch his or her body
language.
• Stay calm and confident.

18. ANSWERING QUESTIONS
• Prepare for questions.
• Clarify & Amplify.
• Be honest.
• Involve the whole audience. Use 25%-75% rule.
• Answers long enough to cover the subject, short enough to
be interesting.

19. Academic English Skills
Rubrics for Assessment
By: Iwan Syahril

20. Which one is for you?

21. Which one is for you?

22. Which one is for you?

23. WHAT MAKES A GOOD
FOOD GOOD?
• Think about your reasons.
• Write down the criteria you use.
• Now choose one of the criteria, let’s say the flavor.Think
about four levels of that criterion. For instance, if you like spicy
food, you might say:
1 - too sweet, 2 - sweet, 3 - quite spicy, 4 - spicy.

24. “THAT IS A RUBRIC!”

25. WHAT IS A RUBRIC?
• A rubric is a scoring tool
that lists the criteria for
assessing a piece of work.
• It articulates the gradations,
from excellent to poor.

26. WHY RUBRIC?
• It makes expectations clear.
• It helps define quality.
• It makes students more thoughtful of their own work.
• It increases students’ sense of responsibility of their work.
• It provides more informative feedback.
• It accommodates heterogenous classrooms.
• It is easy to use and explain.

27. HOWTO CREATE RUBRICS?
• Look at models.
• List criteria for a quality
piece of work.
• Decide the gradations of
quality.

28. WHAT MAKES A
GOOD
PRESENTATION?
• Well-preparedness.
• Focus.
• Confidence.
• Communicative.
• Body Language.
• Engaging.