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- Examines the presentation as a key aspect of students' academic and professional training across the disciplines
- Provides an accessible introduction to current theory and research in speech accommodation in relation to student academic presentations
- Covers the theoretical and research background while being grounded in practical examples of implementation
- Shows how several aspects of speech accommodation have been implemented in student-produced academic discourse
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines student presentations as a genre of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), and analyses the elements of speech and audience accommodation which make a successful presentation. Offering an antidote to the audience-centric approach to presentation design and delivery promoted by numerous books and manuals on the subject, each chapter tackles an under-researched aspect of student presentations, and presents data-based evidence for practical recommendations within the genre. The language analyses presented in the book are based on a real-life corpus of student presentations, providing clear examples of successful oral academic discourse. This book will be of interest to students of applied linguistics, EAP, TESOL and language education.
Keywords
- Student academic presentations
- academic discourse
- lexical profiles
- monologic speech
- communication accommodation
- disfluencies
- speech adjustment
- speech accommodation theory
- audience accommodation
- English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- oral presentations
- public speaking
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA
Alla Zareva
About the author
Alla Zareva is Professor and Graduate Program Director of the Applied Linguistics Program in the Department of English at Old Dominion University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Speech Accommodation in Student Presentations
Authors: Alla Zareva
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37980-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37979-7Published: 08 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37980-3Published: 07 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 113
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Groupwork and Presentation