Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

Incorporating Nonverbal Communication Skills into Teaching and Learning English Presentations

Authors
Tjang Kian Liong
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Tjang Kian Liong
Available Online June 2019.
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.276How to use a DOI?
Keywords
English presentations; teaching and learning; nonverbal communication
Abstract

Delivering a presentation is more than just giving information; it also aims to entertain, inspire, motivate and even to activate the listeners. To obtain the expected results, a presenter must attract his audience’s attention sufficiently and communicate his thoughts and feelings adequately by also implementing nonverbal communication elements, i.e. vocal and body language. Furthermore, presentation skill is very important in the work place, but delivering presentations has undeniably been a distressful task for most people. This study aims to share the experience of teaching Business English Presentations in the Polytechnic of LPKIA Bandung and to reveal the positive impacts of integrating nonverbal communication skills in the teaching and learning English presentations. The method used is descriptive analytics, and the data collecting techniques are library research, observation and interview. The study comprises several stages from designing the syllabus of the subject to observing students’ performance during the final examination. The study unveils that during the final examination, students mostly managed to perform more-natural nonverbal communication elements, showed greater confidence, and communicated better in their presentations. It can be concluded that incorporating nonverbal communication elements can take the learners out of their comfort zone and improve their English presentation skills.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.276
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.276How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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