Public Speaking For ESL Students By ESL Students

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Public Speaking For ESL Students By ESL Students

• Speaking Center
• University of Mary Washington

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Cultural Diversity and the Communication
Center Be Prepared!

• Rebound of number of international students in
  US. colleges since 9/11 nearly 600,000 in
  2006/7
• ( Washington Post, Nov 12, 2007).

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Challenges

• Intonation
• Fluency
• Grammar
• Sociocultural knowledge (who is my audience?
  formal / informal?)

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Communicative Competence

• Linguistic
• Socio-cultural
• Strategic
• (Canale Swain)

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Strategies

• Visual Aides be creative
• Transitions
• Body Movement
• Hand gestures
• Facial expressions

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Audience Analysis

• Good Speakers are audience-attuned
• Know about audiences background, interest and
  level of their knowledge about topic.
• Know about their attitudes toward the topic.
• ltThe Art of Public Speaking by Stephen E.
  Lucasgt

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Audience Analysis- Continued

• Understand the primary purpose of the
  presentation
• Always keep in mind What does the audience want
  to get from my presentation
• It helps you to remember the purpose and
  objective for audience.

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Building Credibility

• ?. Be familiar with the culture in America.
• Open Mind
• - Be Active
• Media
• - Current controversial issues

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Building Credibility

• ?. Sharing Culture
• - Globalization
• - Evoke new interest in other cultures
• - Wider communication

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Building Credibility

• For Example, Korean Day in UMW
• Presentation on Korean culture
• Sharing Korean foods
• Korean Traditional game

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Invention Topic Selection in a Second Language

• Choosing a subject near you
• English second language
• Talking about me or family ? feel comfortable
• The anxiety from public speaking will be down

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Invention (Continued)

• Tough Topic?
• ? Prepare your subjects well
• Research
• Familiarization
• Practice!!

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Invention (Continued)

• Be aware of audience
• The subject may not be their common knowledge.

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Accent Management

• Record yourself
• Pronounce words carefully and slowly
• Practice intonation
• Speaking in English smoothly

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Record yourself

• Record yourself when you speak and notice
  patterns of certain sounds that you have trouble
  with.

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Pronounce words carefully and slowly

• Pronounce words more carefully and speak slower
  word by word.
• Imitate what native speakers say and try to copy
  it slowly.
• As you practice, think of the natural language
  acquisition process
• A parent or care-giver repeats the same word
  again and again slowly to the child

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Fluency

• Practice speaking in English on the phone
• Train yourself to be in the situation where you
  cannot see speakers mouth and facial expression
• You can prepare yourself by calling a service
  center on the phone right before the speech!

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Vocalics Breathing, Gestures, and Intonation

• 1. Practice abdominal breathing
• 2. Follow American gestures
• 3. Draw intonation lines and follow

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Grammar

• Dont be a perfectionist
• Memorize some idioms or important statements
• Organize your ideas logically
• Provide clear transitions to let your audience
  understand the flow of logic better (And, Also,
  However, But, etc.)
• Provide clear signposts (First, Now, For my last
  point, etc.)

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Be a Go-between, Being In Out Make the best
of a bicultural strength

• How to be in
• -showing appreciation
• -behaving as an American
• How to be out
• -wearing a traditional clothing
• -teaching ones own language
• -using ones own examples

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How to be in

• 1. Show appreciation
• ?Break a barrier
• ex)
• my Japanese friend

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How to be in

• 2. Behave as a American
• language based on socio-cultural background
• ex) hello?
• -abdominal breathing
• -physical gestures
• -intonation

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How to be out display cultural characters

• 1.Wear a traditional clothing

Korea
India
Scotland
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How to be out

• 2. Teach your language use
• Ex) Hello
• Korea- An-nyung
• Japan- O-ha-yo- (morning time)
• Thailand- Sa-wa-di-kap(when men say)
• Italia- Cha-oh
• China- Ni-ha-o
• Germany- Hallo

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How to be out

• 3. Use your own experience
• ex)
• -Pr. James
• -Anthropologist Lassiter,
• Behavior always arises in a specific
  context.

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Relax!

• You are learning
• Speaking Anxiety
• Very common
• (but only you know that you are nervous)
• Severe
• Professor, Speaking Center, Center for
  Psychological Services
• Visualize success

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Communication Anxiety

• Practice
• 2. Outline
• 3. Audience is a supportive friend
• 4. Breathing Muscle relaxation
• 5. Get through the first 30 seconds

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Communication Anxiety

• 6. Dont be afraid of mistakes
• 7. Visualize yourself be succeed
• 8. Restructure
• (Dr. Tim ODonnell Lecture on January 29, 2009,
  University of Mary Washington)

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Question / Answer session

• Prepare for the questions following at the end of
  the presentation
• After finish preparing the presentation, look
  over your work critically.
• Shift your position to audience and think about
  what I might ask to presenter about the topic.

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Question / Answer session

• Dont be embarrassed by questions which you do
  not know answer to.
• Answer the questions based on your work and
  presentation. Do not go off topic
• Do not pretend to know about what you are not
  sure about. If you dont understand the question,
  ask them to repeat slowly.

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And Remember to Cite Your Sources!

• Canale , M. Swain, M. (1980). Theoretical bases
  of communicative approaches to second language
  teaching and testing. Applied Linguistics, 1 (1),
  1-47.
• Yook, Eunkyong L. (2002). A Guide to the Basic
  Concepts for ESL Students. USA Wadsworth Group
  Thomson Learning Inc..

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Credits

• 09 Speaking Center Consultants Carly Byers,
  Alyssa Davis, David Moore
• Questions?
• Contact us at University of Mary Washington
  Speaking Center, spkc_at_umw.edu !