Abstract
Recently more and more universities in China design public speaking course in English for the undergraduate English majors. This course can facilitate the students’ oral presentation skills as well as critical thinking improvement. In practice, the outcome of public speaking course is not satisfactory for most students feel anxious to speak in a foreign language and the traditional teacher centered teaching model is not sufficient for the enhancement of students’ achievement in such oral skill focused course. In this paper, the author investigated a new and creative teaching model to activate students’ motivation and forester their performance in English public speaking course for English majors. This model combines neuro-linguistic programming and cooperative approach to create an integrated model. NLP can help recreate a positive and friendly atmosphere for students’ success in English public speaking course and cooperative approach is the learning model which emphasis that a group of students to learn together to optimize the learning environment and reach the learning goals. The newly designed integrated model can be an effective model for a valuable and productive English public speaking course.
Highlights
In modern society, public speaking has become a very important communication skill. Nazara, S. (2011) defined speaking as a distinctive type of spoken discourse to serve social purpose and personal engagement in daily communications for social need and in social environment
The outcome of public speaking course is not satisfactory for most students feel anxious to speak in a foreign language and the traditional teacher centered teaching model is not sufficient for the enhancement of students’ achievement in such oral skill focused course
Public speaking course helps students to further improve their oral English presentation skills, what’s more it is conducive to students to develop ideas, master communication skills and guide students to understand the charm of speech, improve their speech delivering skills
Summary
Public speaking has become a very important communication skill. Nazara, S. (2011) defined speaking as a distinctive type of spoken discourse to serve social purpose and personal engagement in daily communications for social need and in social environment. Public speaking has become a very important communication skill. If there is only information in the speech but no effective structural organization, or only point of view which they cannot justify to argue. All these conditions indicated that the speaker did not carry out enough serious and in-depth thinking with the issue involved. With the promotion of speech competition, colleges and universities began to notice the importance of English public speaking in cultivating students’ comprehensive qualities. In the reformation of English teaching, they all tried to use public speaking as an important course to improve learners’ English proficiency and critical thinking
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