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    Academic Presenting and Presentations: Teacher's Book
    Academic Presenting and Presentations: Teacher's Book
    Academic Presenting and Presentations: Teacher's Book
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    Academic Presenting and Presentations: Teacher's Book

    By Averil Bolster and Peter Levrai

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    This Teacher’s Book is the companion to Academic Presenting and Presentations (ISBN 978-3-7347-8367-8), a training course designed to help students cultivate academic presentation skills and deal with the various presentation tasks they may be required to fulfil during the course of their university studies. The material is suitable for a global audience and can be used in a wide range of contexts in the fields of Communication Skills, English Language Teaching and English for Academic Purposes.
    In addition to providing valuable notes on each unit, the Teacher’s Book contains key information on the underlying principles, concept and structure of the course and sets out the rationale behind its design. Teachers, and through them their students, can benefit from the depth of the insights presented here, making the classroom experience a rewarding and enjoyable one.
    Academic presentations can be particularly challenging for non-native English speakers and consequently, the print material and the accompanying video recordings dovetail neatly to provide linguistic support and guidance as well as enhancing presentation skills and providing a forum for practice, feedback and ongoing improvement. However, broader topics of interest appropriate to a study-oriented context, such as research and plagiarism, are also dealt with in a unique balance of content that goes beyond the treatment of discrete language points and emphasises high-level task achievement whilst at the same time focusing attention on the specific requirements of addressing an audience in an academic environment.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateAug 18, 2016
    ISBN9783741267635
    Academic Presenting and Presentations: Teacher's Book
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    Averil Bolster

    Averil Bolster has been teaching English since the mid nineteen-nineties and has worked in countries as diverse as Portugal, Turkey, China, Vietnam and Azerbaijan on a wide range of EFL/ESL programs, including exam preparation, English for Academic Purposes and technical and engineering English. She holds an MA in ELT Materials Development from Leeds Metropolitan University and an International Diploma in Language Teaching Management. In addition to co-authoring the present course, she has developed and piloted a variety of teaching materials designed to promote successful learning and enhance the educational experience for speakers of other languages. She is currently senior instructor of English Language at the University of Macau.

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      Academic Presenting and Presentations - Averil Bolster

      Further components in this series

      www.linguabooks.com

      Contents

      Foreword

      Concept and Structure

      Overview

      Learning Presentations

      Sample Presentations

      Unit 1 Introduction to Presentations

      Unit 2 What is an Academic Presentation?

      Unit 3 Presenting a Paper

      Project Introduction – Approaching a Topic

      Unit 4 Elevator Pitch Poster Presentations

      Unit 5 Persuasive Presentations

      Unit 6 Presenting Progress

      Project Review – Giving a Progress Presentation

      Unit 7 Problem/Solution Presentations

      Unit 8 Research Presentations

      Project Presentation – Giving a Final Presentation

      Worksheets

      Rationale

      Bibliography

      I hope I remember everything, said Toni.

      You won’t, said Trapp. That’s how you learn.

      Louis Sachar, The Cardturner

      Foreword

      Academic Presenting and Presentations is a training course designed to help students cultivate academic presentation skills and deal with the various presentation tasks they may be required to fulfil during the course of their university studies. The material in the Student’s Book is suitable for a global audience and can be used in a wide range of contexts in the field of EAP (English for Academic Purposes), since it helps develop presentation skills and also deals with broader topics of interest in a study-oriented context such as research and plagiarism. The material emphasises higher level task-achievement rather than discrete language points since experience shows that this is the area that most students find especially difficult.

      A key tenet of the course is that effective presentation skills alone will not lead to a successful academic presentation. As well as technical presentation skills, students will also have to appreciate the key features of academic presentations (such as soundness of argument and use of referenced support) and also be aware of the expectations of different genres of academic presentation, from seminar presentations introducing a paper to more sophisticated research presentations. Each unit of Academic Presenting and Presentations, therefore, focuses on a different presentation genre, building students' awareness of not only how to present effectively, but of how to present appropriately in an academic environment.

      As it is a presentation course, the accompanying videos form an integral component of this course. The videos consist of two types of presentation: Learning Presentations, which give advice to students and Sample Presentations, which illustrate different types of presentation.

      The presentations are available online and can be found on the Academic Presenting and Presentations website at:

      http://www.linguabooks.com/app

      A boxed set of Video DVDs is also available from the publishers. This contains videos of all the Sample Presentations and Learning Presentations in a format suitable for playing on a standard DVD player.

      This Teacher’s Book includes general guidance for class work, detailed notes on each unit and details of the theoretical rationale on which the course is based.

      Concept and Structure

      Basic principles

      Presenting is an important part of university life. Students in different disciplines may well be expected to present as part of their studies. These may be developmental presentation tasks, such as presenting a paper to introduce a seminar discussion, or more formal, assessed presentations, which are the culmination of coursework assignments.

      The aim of this course is to give students advice about different types of presentation task and also show them examples of presentations that they can analyse to identify successful presentation techniques. Throughout the course, students will also have ample opportunity to prepare and deliver the kinds of presentation they may be asked to give as part of their studies.

      The core assumption of this course is that technical presentation skills alone will not enable students to deliver successful academic presentations. The definition below highlights what academic presentations mean in the context of this course.

      Definition: An oral academic presentation is a clear articulation of ideas, based on and referencing sources or research evidence, in which the presenter leads the audience to logical and sound conclusions. Effective presentation skills are needed so the audience can follow the presentation easily, but an academic presentation must have substance. Through the presentation the presenter must analyse and evaluate information, making their reaction and position clear to the audience. Information in an academic presentation must be verifiable and the presenter must have a wider and deeper knowledge of the topic than that presented in the body of the presentation. A presentation should lead to discussion and further debate, with the presenter able to respond to audience questions competently. Different genres of academic presentation (e.g. presenting a paper, research presentations or problem-solution presentations) will require students to employ an appropriate structure.

      A presentation-driven course

      Academic Presenting and Presentations is built around presentations. This is based on the belief that the more presentations students see, the more clearly they will develop their ideas about what makes a presentation successful and what constitutes an appropriate academic presentation. There are two types of presentation in Academic Presenting and Presentations: Learning Presentations and Sample Presentations.

      The Learning Presentations (LP) give students information and advice about different aspects of presenting. While the focus of these presentations is on the advice given to students, they can also be used as examples of presentations in themselves and analysed for issues such as useful presenting language or delivery techniques.

      The Sample Presentations (SP) give students a chance to see different types of presentation in action and therefore become familiar with different genres of academic presentation. The emphasis while watching these presentations is on seeing how different presentations work structurally and how a presentation can be delivered successfully. A review of these presentations is provided

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