For my third topic related to assessment, I decided to talk about Oral Speaking. If you are a Malaysian student, you will be familiar with this term. Throughout the eleven years of schooling, from elementary school to secondary school, i believe that you had gone through oral speaking for the BM and BI subjects. And if you went to Form Six before, I am sure you had gone through the MUET examination too, where there is four paper for the MUET examination. The reason I chose this topic is because oral speaking is a common test in our country and I would like to share some tips on how to do well for oral speaking or oral presentation.
The purpose of this assessment is to evaluate the students' language pronunciation and proficiency, their on the spot reaction and also their creativity in answering the teacher's questions during the Question and Answer (Q&A) session. When I was in the secondary school, our teacher always let us choose our own oral speaking's topics. She will give us two to three weeks to prepare for our oral speaking. During the actual day of presentation, she will be sitting at the back of the class and she will observe and assess our presentation. She will be evaluating our topic, whether it is interesting and caught people's attention, our language pronunciation and proficiency and after our presentation, she will ask a few questions regarding our presentation topic, to see whether we did our preparation fully and understand the topic that we presented.
There are people who are good in speaking in front of the crowd and there are people who don't. There are actually a few tips on how you can do well for your oral speaking. The first tip is to pick a suitable topic. For oral speaking, there will always be a problem, that is not knowing which topic to pick and talk about. It is important for you to surf through the internet and look for topic that caught your eye. If you read through an article and you yourself find it interesting, bookmark the page or website first and look for another topic. Prepare a few topics and choose the best one out of it later.
The second tip is to practice and time your presentation. After you prepare for the script of the topic that you wanted to present, always remember to practice and time yourself. I myself is the type where I don't practice for my presentation. I only read through the script for a few times and this actually cause me trouble. I tend to forgot what I wanted to present. That is why we have to practice so that we do not forget about what we wanted to say to the audience. For timing, while you are practicing your script, have a timer with you so that it is easy for you to time yourself. Timing yourself is important because you need to know how long you are going to present. A long presentation will make your audience bored whereas a short presentation makes people think that you didn't prepare well enough for your presentation. Always remember to time yourself so that your presentation isn't too long or too short.
The third tip is use visuals sparingly. I am sure all of you had gone through presentation process before and it is really boring when your friends keep on talking without showing you any pictures. Or, your friend put up too many photos and you do not know where to look at. It is important that we use images sparingly as images help to attract the audiences' attention and it can effectively help to deliver your messages.
And the last tip is to TALK TO THE AUDIENCE. When we get nervous, we tend to look around when we talk and some people even choose to look at the wall behind the audiences. I have friends, where they took off their spectacles so that they don't feel nervous when they found out that the audiences are looking at them. It is important to make eye contact with the audiences. I am sure you want your audiences to listen and pay attention to you when you are talking in front of them. Hence, when your friends are presenting, make sure you pay attention to them because they also want us to pay attention to what they are trying to deliver.
My opinion about oral speaking is that teacher must set time limits for every student's presentation and let the students voice out their opinion if they want to have oral presentation for the particular topic. Teachers need to know what topic is suitable for oral presentation and vice versa. Students will feel tired and loaded if their teachers always ask them to have oral presentation for every single topic.
My suggestion for oral speaking is that teachers should apply oral speaking or oral presentation more frequently in the their daily classroom teaching and learning activities. As far as I remember, oral speaking was only done one or twice in a year when I was in the secondary school. It is a good idea to increase oral speaking activities in the classroom activities as it is important to train the students to speak in front of the crowd. Students nowadays need to be able to speak in order to compete with the others.
Till the next post~ Have a good night! :)
The purpose of this assessment is to evaluate the students' language pronunciation and proficiency, their on the spot reaction and also their creativity in answering the teacher's questions during the Question and Answer (Q&A) session. When I was in the secondary school, our teacher always let us choose our own oral speaking's topics. She will give us two to three weeks to prepare for our oral speaking. During the actual day of presentation, she will be sitting at the back of the class and she will observe and assess our presentation. She will be evaluating our topic, whether it is interesting and caught people's attention, our language pronunciation and proficiency and after our presentation, she will ask a few questions regarding our presentation topic, to see whether we did our preparation fully and understand the topic that we presented.
There are people who are good in speaking in front of the crowd and there are people who don't. There are actually a few tips on how you can do well for your oral speaking. The first tip is to pick a suitable topic. For oral speaking, there will always be a problem, that is not knowing which topic to pick and talk about. It is important for you to surf through the internet and look for topic that caught your eye. If you read through an article and you yourself find it interesting, bookmark the page or website first and look for another topic. Prepare a few topics and choose the best one out of it later.
The third tip is use visuals sparingly. I am sure all of you had gone through presentation process before and it is really boring when your friends keep on talking without showing you any pictures. Or, your friend put up too many photos and you do not know where to look at. It is important that we use images sparingly as images help to attract the audiences' attention and it can effectively help to deliver your messages.
And the last tip is to TALK TO THE AUDIENCE. When we get nervous, we tend to look around when we talk and some people even choose to look at the wall behind the audiences. I have friends, where they took off their spectacles so that they don't feel nervous when they found out that the audiences are looking at them. It is important to make eye contact with the audiences. I am sure you want your audiences to listen and pay attention to you when you are talking in front of them. Hence, when your friends are presenting, make sure you pay attention to them because they also want us to pay attention to what they are trying to deliver.
My opinion about oral speaking is that teacher must set time limits for every student's presentation and let the students voice out their opinion if they want to have oral presentation for the particular topic. Teachers need to know what topic is suitable for oral presentation and vice versa. Students will feel tired and loaded if their teachers always ask them to have oral presentation for every single topic.
My suggestion for oral speaking is that teachers should apply oral speaking or oral presentation more frequently in the their daily classroom teaching and learning activities. As far as I remember, oral speaking was only done one or twice in a year when I was in the secondary school. It is a good idea to increase oral speaking activities in the classroom activities as it is important to train the students to speak in front of the crowd. Students nowadays need to be able to speak in order to compete with the others.
Till the next post~ Have a good night! :)
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