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International Graduate Student Powerpoint Presentation Designs: A Reality Check, Alla Zareva
International Graduate Student Powerpoint Presentation Designs: A Reality Check, Alla Zareva
English Faculty Publications
The present study set out to examine what novice international graduate student presenters consider to be effective PowerPoint slide design practices and the extent to which these practices are in agreement with experts’ advice. The analysis focused on three main features of students’ PowerPoint presentations – organisation, style and typography. The general conclusion is that we can mostly rely on students’ intuitions concerning ‘relevance’ and ‘simplicity’ of PowerPoint presentation designs, but we should draw their attention to ‘consistency’, i.e., the systematic application of the organisation, style and typological features to their PowerPoint presentations.
Lexical Composition Of Effective L1 And L2 Students' Academic Presentations, Alla Zareva
Lexical Composition Of Effective L1 And L2 Students' Academic Presentations, Alla Zareva
English Faculty Publications
The present study set out to examine the lexical profiles of L1 (n = 30) and proficient L2 students' presentations (n = 30), aiming at finding out the overall lexical composition of successful academic presentations. It was also of interest to see how some of the presentations' lexical features compared to findings about the lexical composition of students' productively used vocabulary in writing. In addition to this, the analysis focused on the lexical composition of both groups' oral production in an attempt to uncover patterns of lexical uses that may need to be discussed in oral communication courses, specifically targeting …