TY - JOUR
T1 - Taking the Floor
T2 - Oral Presentations in EFL Classrooms
AU - Al-Issa, Ali Said
AU - Al-Qubtan, Redha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
2010 TESOL International Association.
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - This article discusses theoretical and practical aspects pertaining to oral presentations in the EFL context. It discusses issues and proposes ideas concerning the advantages of presentations, types of presentations, ways of arranging presentations in the classroom, possible topics of presentations and sources of data and information obtained for the different topics, and ways of assessing presentations in the EFL classroom. However, the discussion also has implications for non-EFL contexts, including ESL, content-based language learning, and learning languages other than English.
AB - This article discusses theoretical and practical aspects pertaining to oral presentations in the EFL context. It discusses issues and proposes ideas concerning the advantages of presentations, types of presentations, ways of arranging presentations in the classroom, possible topics of presentations and sources of data and information obtained for the different topics, and ways of assessing presentations in the EFL classroom. However, the discussion also has implications for non-EFL contexts, including ESL, content-based language learning, and learning languages other than English.
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U2 - 10.5054/tj.2010.220425
DO - 10.5054/tj.2010.220425
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84924226897
SN - 1056-7941
VL - 1
SP - 227
EP - 246
JO - TESOL Journal
JF - TESOL Journal
IS - 2
ER -