Research on the Status Quo of English Majors’ Group Presentation in Private Colleges

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10.2991/assehr.k.210609.031How to use a DOI?

Keywords

group presentation, environment, teachers, presenters

Abstract

This study aims to explore the status quo of group presentations for English majors in private colleges. An online questionnaire was conducted on 294 college English majors and 12 of them took part in semi-structured interviews. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted and revealed that there were advantages and problems in the present group presentation in private colleges’ classes. Results of the study indicate that: 1) English teachers in private colleges generally like to implement the teaching method of group presentation. English students in private colleges generally believe that it is necessary to implement group presentation in English teaching, but the degree of their like of group presentation is at a medium level; 2) students are generally satisfied with the presentation environment except for the classroom layout; 3) teachers can arrange group size reasonably, leave enough time for students to prepare and give students help and feedback in class, but they are somewhat deficient in topic arrangement and after-class tutoring; 4) the presenters’ English proficiency and presentation skills need to be improved. These findings were discussed and implications were suggested on language teaching.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhou Wei
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/10
TI  - Research on the Status Quo of English Majors’ Group Presentation in Private Colleges
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 154
EP  - 159
SN  - 2352-5398
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