Improving English Oral and Public Speaking Skills in the Classroom
This paper describes the implementation of different techniques in the English class. Those techniques are taken and adapted from the methodology of Toastmasters International Club. The authors have adapted this methodology in order to improve their students’ English performance, which has proven to...
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Universidad de Costa Rica
2019-09-01
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| author | Rosberly López Montero Jonnathan Salas Alvarado |
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| description | This paper describes the implementation of different techniques in the English class. Those techniques are taken and adapted from the methodology of Toastmasters International Club. The authors have adapted this methodology in order to improve their students’ English performance, which has proven to be effective in the foreign language classroom. Therefore, this paper details Toastmasters techniques in two groups of the Pacific Regional Center of University of Costa Rica: freshmen from the Major of English with Business Management Training and juniors from the English Teaching Major. The authors developed different techniques depending on the students’ level and course objectives and have concluded that this methodology can provide valuable resources to improve English in the classroom. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8bab78254c6a4895ab055ff694a8caa22022-12-22T01:27:40ZengUniversidad de Costa RicaRevista de Lenguas Modernas1659-19332215-56432019-09-0130Improving English Oral and Public Speaking Skills in the ClassroomRosberly López MonteroJonnathan Salas AlvaradoThis paper describes the implementation of different techniques in the English class. Those techniques are taken and adapted from the methodology of Toastmasters International Club. The authors have adapted this methodology in order to improve their students’ English performance, which has proven to be effective in the foreign language classroom. Therefore, this paper details Toastmasters techniques in two groups of the Pacific Regional Center of University of Costa Rica: freshmen from the Major of English with Business Management Training and juniors from the English Teaching Major. The authors developed different techniques depending on the students’ level and course objectives and have concluded that this methodology can provide valuable resources to improve English in the classroom.https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/38980English, foreign language learning, foreign language teaching, public speaking |
| spellingShingle | Rosberly López Montero Jonnathan Salas Alvarado Improving English Oral and Public Speaking Skills in the Classroom Revista de Lenguas Modernas English, foreign language learning, foreign language teaching, public speaking |
| title | Improving English Oral and Public Speaking Skills in the Classroom |
| title_full | Improving English Oral and Public Speaking Skills in the Classroom |
| title_fullStr | Improving English Oral and Public Speaking Skills in the Classroom |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving English Oral and Public Speaking Skills in the Classroom |
| title_short | Improving English Oral and Public Speaking Skills in the Classroom |
| title_sort | improving english oral and public speaking skills in the classroom |
| topic | English, foreign language learning, foreign language teaching, public speaking |
| url | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/38980 |
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