Overview
- Designed to help non-native English speakers to prepare and deliver effective presentations at international conferences
- Written in English that readers will be able to understand easily
- Improves upon the highly successful previous edition, one of the first books written on presentations specifically from the perspective of non-native English speakers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: English for Academic Research (EAR)
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About this book
The easy-to-follow guidelines and tips will teach you how to:
- plan, prepare and practice a well-organized, interesting presentation
- avoid errors in English by using short easy-to-say sentences
- improve your English pronunciation and intonation
- gain confidence, and overcome nerves and embarrassment
- highlight the essential points you want your audience to remember
- attract and retain audience attention
- deal with questions from the audience
This new edition contains several additional features, including stimulating factoids and discussion points both for self-study and in-class use. New chapters also cover:
- learning from talks on TED
- networking with potential collaborators, professors, fellow researchers
- interacting successfully with non-native audiences
- posters
EAP teachers will find this book to be a great source of tips for training students, and for preparing both instructive and entertaining lessons.
Other books in the series cover: writing research papers; English grammar, usage, and style; academic correspondence; interacting on campus; plus exercises books and a teacher's guide.
Please visit http://www.springer.com/series/13913 for a full list of titles in the series.
Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 30 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and academics from 35 countries to write research papers, prepare presentations, and communicate with editors, referees and fellow researchers.
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Book Title: English for Presentations at International Conferences
Authors: Adrian Wallwork
Series Title: English for Academic Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26330-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26328-1Published: 15 March 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26330-4Published: 05 March 2016
Series ISSN: 2625-3445
Series E-ISSN: 2625-3453
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 284
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: English, Language Education, Popular Science in Linguistics, Grammar