Week-2-Seminar-Skills-(水科院)

Week29/25/2017,Seminarskills,Communicationinacademicsituations,GivingaformalpresentationParticipateinaseminarLeadaseminarDiscussorgiveyouropinioninaseminaronpre-assignedarticlesyouhavereadSpeakingwithatutoronaone-to-onetutorialDiscussyourstudieswithotherstudents,Reflection,1,YourattitudetospeakingEnglish,YourattitudetospeakingEnglish,SpeakEnglishwithaperfectnative-speakeraccent.SpeakEnglishwithoutasinglegrammaticalmistake.FeelasthoughIamadifferentpersonwhenIspeakEnglish.Mypronunciationisnotasimportantasgrammaticalaccuracy.,IfIcancommunicatemymeaningeffectively,itdoesnotmatterifImakemistakes.IdontlikeworkingingroupsbecauseImaylearnincorrectEnglishfrommyclassmates.IwanttospeakEnglishforsocialreasonsaswellasforacademicreasons.,YourattitudetospeakingEnglish,Reportingback,OurgroupthoughtthatwasthemostcontroversialpointTherewassomedisagreementabout,DontbeobsessedbyyourspokenEnglish.Theshorterthesentence,thelesslikelyyouaretomakeamistake.Writtenmistakesvs.slipoftongueHavingtwoversionsofyourpresentation(?)The“live”version:minimaldetails/textThefullversion:holditinyourhandCards/outlineonmobilephone/printitoutReduceyouranxiety,Goodspeakingskills,AsuccessfulpresentationincludesLanguagePronunciationOrganizationStyleofdelivery,Haveatry,PronunciationofsoundsandwordsIntonationVolumeSpeedEyecontact,Howtodeliverapresentation,OpeningapresentationGuidinganaudiencethroughthemainpointsHelpinganaudienceunderstandtheorganizationClosingapresentation,Presentationskill:Signpost,Amini-presentation,Therearefivemainpointsthatweconsiderimportantforsuccessfulstudy.OurfirstpointisNext,wehaveputMovingontoourthirdpoint,Fourthly,wethinkAndfinally,ourlastpointis,2,Asuccessfulpresentation,Presentationskill(TorF),PutasmuchinformationaspossibleoneachslideUsecolorandsoundtolivenupherslidesReadfromascriptMemorizeascriptandreciteitUsenotesPauseaftereachmainpointReadsalltheinformationontheslideStandsinoneplaceallthetimeSpeakatthesamespeedallthetime,Review:Ican,Speakaccurately,withoutmakingtoomanygrammaticalmistakes.Speakwithouthesitatingtoomuch.Findwaystocommunicatemymeaning,evenifIcantfindexactlytherightwords.Speakatthesamespeedallthetime.UsuallyfindthewordsIneedtosaywhatIwant.Mostpeoplecanunderstandmypronunciation.Speakconfidentlyinfrontofanaudience.Talkconfidentlyinmyownsubjectarea.,Learnerdiary,WhatareasofspeakingEnglishyouneedtoworkon?Whatcanyoudotoimproveintheseareas,eitherinsideoroutsidetheclassroom?Howdoyoufeelaboutthespeakingyouhavedonesofar?Rememberthatthinkingorreflectingonhowyoulearncanimprovethelearningprocess.,Quickwritingfor5minutes,IfindspeakinginEnglishdifficultwhenIfindusingEnglishatuniversitycanbedifferentfromothersituations.Ithinkitisimportanttobeabletospeak,butsomepeoplefeelIagreewithothersinmygroupthat,3,Smallgrouppresentation,Possibletopicsfordiscussion,Yourresearchorchooseoneofthefollowingtopicstopractice:1.IntelligenceisimportantforPhDstudents.2.PhDstudentsshouldbeallowedtochoosehisownresearchtopics.3.PhDstudentsshouldbetreatedasresearchersratherthan“slaves”.4.Humanteachersmaybereplacedin2030.Whyorwhynot?,Summaryofthissession,WehavelearnedSeminarskills:howtointroduceyourresearchinaseminarSmallgroupprese