How to Improve Presentation Skill
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Definition of research problem
Your presentations skills are just as important as the information you are presenting. Presentation skills are important for every individual when you have the need to present yourself. It is not only essential for your studying but also for future career. When you are applying for a job, you have to present yourself as a sincere applicant who is ready to improvise the organisation using his or her technical and non-technical skills. Only if you present yourself with the right attitude, you will be able to get the job. Even when you are in the job, you should be attending business meetings with the higher officials where your presentation skills will prove yourself.
The purpose of this paper is to study the effectiveness of oral presentation as an assessment tool in university and career as well.The assessment practices in these subjects have been studied by many authors. Assessment may involve written tasks such as essay, report writing, calculation using formulae, computer simulation, short answer or descriptive writing in examination, multiple choice questions and also an oral presentation on a written task. However, the issues relating to oral presentation have not been studied clearly before. This paper reports the results of an empirical investigation of oral presentation used Banking University, especially in Foreign Language Faculty.
1.2 Research scope and objectives
Three specific questions are addressed in this paper. The first question is about the inportance of performance in oral presentation. The second question is about the effect that gender and student background determined by students’ nationality may have on their performance in oral presentation and other forms of assessment. The third question is about developing insights on various issues involved in the student performance in oral presentation in university and future career. The study of oral
1.1 Definition of research problem
Your presentations skills are just as important as the information you are presenting. Presentation skills are important for every individual when you have the need to present yourself. It is not only essential for your studying but also for future career. When you are applying for a job, you have to present yourself as a sincere applicant who is ready to improvise the organisation using his or her technical and non-technical skills. Only if you present yourself with the right attitude, you will be able to get the job. Even when you are in the job, you should be attending business meetings with the higher officials where your presentation skills will prove yourself.
The purpose of this paper is to study the effectiveness of oral presentation as an assessment tool in university and career as well.The assessment practices in these subjects have been studied by many authors. Assessment may involve written tasks such as essay, report writing, calculation using formulae, computer simulation, short answer or descriptive writing in examination, multiple choice questions and also an oral presentation on a written task. However, the issues relating to oral presentation have not been studied clearly before. This paper reports the results of an empirical investigation of oral presentation used Banking University, especially in Foreign Language Faculty.
1.2 Research scope and objectives
Three specific questions are addressed in this paper. The first question is about the inportance of performance in oral presentation. The second question is about the effect that gender and student background determined by students’ nationality may have on their performance in oral presentation and other forms of assessment. The third question is about developing insights on various issues involved in the student performance in oral presentation in university and future career. The study of oral
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