Abstract
This study aims to investigate the factors affecting oral presentation skills of undergraduate-learners of English that influence their academic performance which potentially can affect professional career. The study has used quantitative instrument as questionnaire partially adopted from McCroskey (1982) for data collection among 100 undergraduate-participants on factors affecting oral communication skills at one Public Sector University. Purposive sampling method was used since participants were selected on specific criteria of only first year engineering undergraduates. The data were analysed through SPSS, v.20 for obtaining percentage, mean, median, standard deviation, and standard error of mean to be measured. The findings revealed that oral presentation skills as the most problematic for engineering undergraduates. The results also revealed that the several factors affected engineering undergraduates’ oral presentations.
Highlights
Background of the StudyThis research study is based on factors affecting oral presentation skills of engineering undergraduates learning English at a public sector university
The findings revealed that oral presentation skills as the most problematic for engineering undergraduates
The information obtained for this research question was first categorised into four headings of oral communication skills for instance group discussion, meeting/interview, conversation, and oral presentation
Summary
This research study is based on factors affecting oral presentation skills of engineering undergraduates learning English at a public sector university. Undergraduates during oral presentations face many problems their academic as well as professional career is affected. Speaking, most of the schools and colleges use vernaculars or Sindhi or Urdu as a medium of instruction in their respective provinces of Pakistan and English is taught as a compulsory subject not as a language. When such students are selected in universities for higher studies, they face problems during communication generally in oral presentations. Based on the personal observation it is found that during English teaching and learning students are directed to cram the rules and reproduce them in examination resultantly, students remain unaware of the vitality of English language for communicative purposes
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