USING TED TALKS TO ENHANCE PRESENTATION SKILL FOR THE 1ST YEAR ENGLISH MAJORS AT THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION

Abstract

Along with industrialization and modernization process in our country as well as globalization and international integration, presentation skills in general and English presentation skills in particular play a crucial part to perform effective communication activities. Presentation skill is considered one of the meaningful ways to express opinions and gain achievements in life, career and business. This paper aims to investigate the effectiveness of a new English presentation learning strategy - using TED Talks in teaching presentation at Thai Nguyen University of Education. This course framework adopts TED Talks as the useful materials in teaching and learning presentation. In the meantime, it aims to identify difficulties affecting the presentation skills of students and the outcome of using TED Talks to help students improve their presentation skills. The participants of the study are the first-year English majors at Thai Nguyen University of Education ranging from 18-19 years old. The study has collected the presentation errors that students have and suggested solutions to improve and enhance them by applying videos of Ted Talks. The findings of the study will be useful for first year English majors at Thai Nguyen University of Education in particular as well as for English majors in general.