English Oral Defense

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English Oral Defense

• Gao Guangyan(4) 6 Oct 2005

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Purpose of Portfolio

• Monitor my development
• Showcase my achievements
• Identify strengths and weaknesses
• Improve upon my weaknesses

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3 Main aspects

• Reading and Comprehension
• Writing and Thinking
• Speech and Presentation

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Comprehension

• Acquired more inference / understanding skills
• Able to read and understand information
• Problem expressing answers accurately
• Need to improve
• Read between the lines
• Accurately pick them out
• Do more comprehension

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Writing

• Problems presentation part.
• Might have many good points
• Unable to express clearly
• Argument might be confusing
• Exposed to many different techniques
• Top Level Structure etc.
• Helped me in better organizing

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Writing

• Language
• Grammatical errors here and there
• Vocabulary gt ordinary
• To improve
• Organize my date in a more logical fashion.
• Improve use of words
• Read more, write more

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Presentation

• Improved most
• Increased Practice
• Problems
• Speech planning
• Keeping to Time Limit
• However
• Generally not a big problem
• More confident and relaxed

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Presentation

• Improved over the years
• Body Movements (less distracting)
• Less monotonous
• Improved eye contact
• Speak less quickly
• Other factors
• More English speeches in class
• Research Education presentations

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The End

• Thank you for your attention
• Do you have any question?