Speaking With a Purpose

Utilizing Authentic Videos: An Action Research to Enhance Students' Ability in Developing Their Speaking Content

“…The first step is determining our purpose or the message we want to convey. By knowing the purpose or message of our speaking, we will be able to make a note on the main points then elaborate it by using some supporting ideas that can be stated in the form of giving definition, example, statistic, argument, and so on (Koch, 1995).…”

“…Koch (1995) and Zarefsky (1996) state that we can use appropriate transitions in the idea development or elaboration in order to make the audiences or the interlocutors understand every single idea we want to convey. These aspects, like delivering the message, speaking organization, idea development, transitions, and the speaking mechanism (fluency, intonation, and pronunciation) are used as the guideline to assess students' speaking performance in this study, especially in the speaking content development (Blaz, 2001;Brown, 2004;Grice & Skinner, 1995;Koch, 1995;Luoma, 2005).…”

Structural Competence In Engineering Technical Oral Presentations – A Linguistic Dimension

“…Such structural features enable graduates to signal audience the different sections of http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2018.05.30 Corresponding Author: Ena Bhattacharyya Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the conference eISSN: 2357-1330 372 discussion in a presentation. Structural markers like "the next point…", "this shows the… ", "I am going to explain about the…"and "…this brings the next point of discussion…" which cues the audience on the movement from one part of the presentation to another section (Koch, 2010). Such use of transitional words, phrases and sentences help achieve a coherent flow in the presentation.…”