The use of external representation in academic oral presentations among international undergraduate students in higher education
In previous studies, one of the chaIllenges that international students faced was conducting academic oral presentations. The problems encountered by the students were related to linguistics, content, and presentation skills. In terms of presentation skills, the international students claimed tha...
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12568/3/The%20use%20of%20external%20representation%20in%20academic%20oral%20presentations%20among%20international%20undergraduate%20students%20in%20higher%20education%20%28fulltext%29.pdf |
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| Summary: | In previous studies, one of the chaIllenges that international students faced was
conducting academic oral presentations. The problems encountered by the students were
related to linguistics, content, and presentation skills. In terms of presentation skills, the
international students claimed that they lacked the skills to organize their ideas and
present them using Power Point slides. Most studies in this field were done on improving
language and little was done on skills to organize their ideas to be externally presented
using PowerPoint slides. External representation was claimed to assist learners to
organize thoughts. Therefore, this study looks at the use of external representation in
organizing students' thoughts and speaking fluency in academic oral presentation among
international undergraduate students in UNIMAS. The research was done qualitatively in
which 12 international undergraduate students were interviewed and assessed. The
interview questions focused on the challenges the students face in academic oral
presentations, their experience in using any form of external representation, their
perceptions on the use of external representation and its effect on their speaking fluency.
Then, the informants were assessed based on their fluency using presentation rubric. The
results had shown that the students had varied perceptions on the use of external
representation and the effects on their English speaking fluency. |
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