e-ISSN 2231-8542
ISSN 1511-3701
Bhattacharyya, E. and Zainal, A. Z.
Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Volume 23, Issue S, August 2015
Keywords: Communicative Competence, Technical Oral Presentation, Linguistic and Rhetorical Competence, Oral Immediacy Competence
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This article reports how the notion of communicative competence was perceived by engineering students and engineers during 16 final year technical oral presentation sessions. Six sub-sets associated to linguistic and rhetorical competence such as brevity and terminology; confident, interactive and argumentative language; visual language; humour; formality, and exchange of questions are deemed necessary. There is, however, notable diversity in the participants' perception of the said notion. Engineers stressed contextualised real-world application presentation, while students were drawn toward academically inclined structured content based type of presentation. Implications of the study for English Language teaching in the ESL context are discussed.
ISSN 1511-3701
e-ISSN 2231-8542