This is about using slides, tables, graphs, and the likes to train speaking to professionals comprising managers, inspectors, and directors

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GESS Indonesia Conference, Sept 27-29,
2017, JCC, Indonesia
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Using Slides, Tables, Graphs, and
the Likes to Train Speaking to
Professionals
By:
Ferry Antoni

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GESS Indonesia Conference, Sept 27-29,
2017, JCC, Indonesia
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Nature of Professionals
- Comprised of directors, managers, inspectors
(My student is a bank director)
- High dignity and prestige
- Need to be able to speak English
- Have (a little) English already
- Fossilization (?)

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Consequences
 Can’t be taught to speak like teenagers and adults
 Should be speaking-trained as professionals
 Customized speaking materials/programs
 Dignity, image, and prestige considered
 Speaking learning reckoned light but taken to a height
 Intelligibility/fluency precedes accuracy (See Alwasilah
2001: 46 and Antoni 2003: 3)
 Affect excels cognition
 Putting yourself in the student’s shoe

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Recommendation: Using Slides,
Tables, Graphs, and the Likes
 Slides, tables, graphs, and the likes as prompts
 Advantage: Brief ideas, detailed elaboration
 Contents: 1. topics related to self and job description, 2.
topics surrounding life and hobbies, 3. topics of current
affairs
 Activities: explain, relate, tell, and present
 Questions asked to maintain interaction
 Errors and mistakes jotted down and dealt with tactfully
 Sample slide here, video here

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Advantages
 Motivated to speak
 Dignity, image, and prestige raised
 Won’t get bored
 Will want to study more and, therefore,
longer

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2017, JCC, Indonesia
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Application in a Normal Class of
More Students
 Teach necessary expressions
 Student-student interaction in pairs or groups
 Teacher monitoring
 Sample(s) taken for all-seen performance
 Errors and mistakes jotted down and dealt
with time-wisely

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2017, JCC, Indonesia
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Conclusion
Using slides, tables, graphs, and
the likes is highly recommended to
train speaking to professionals