Exploration and Practice on How to Improve Non-English Major Students’ Public Speaking Ability—An Action Research on English Public Speaking Classes in Kunming University

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201214.167How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Exploration and practice, public speaking teaching, action research

Abstract

As an art form, the purpose of integrating EPS classes into the college English curriculum is not to cultivate college students as professional speakers, but to enhance their language proficiency and critical thinking ability. Through systematic teaching in a selective course of Kunming University, the research aims to discuss how to improve undergraduate students’ public speaking ability. Two rounds of action research were conducted, during which data were collected via questionnaire, observation and speech presentation. The findings show that students’ public speaking abilities do get some improvement, but more could be done for further progress.

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© 2020, 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  - Min Yang
AU  - Rongrong Pan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - Exploration and Practice on How to Improve Non-English Major Students’ Public Speaking Ability—An Action Research on English Public Speaking Classes in Kunming University
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 6th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 877
EP  - 882
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.167
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.167
ID  - Yang2020
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