Teaching Presentation Skills: An Effective Tool to Enhance University Beginners’ Learning

Ram Prasad Rai, Bam Dev Sharma

doi:https://doi.org/10.59232/DSM-V2I1P101

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Volume 2 | Issue 1 | Year 2025 | Article Id: DSM-V2I1P101 DOI: https://doi.org/10.59232/DSM-V2I1P101

Teaching Presentation Skills: An Effective Tool to Enhance University Beginners’ Learning

Ram Prasad Rai, Bam Dev Sharma

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05 Nov 2024	12 Dec 2024	10 Jan 2025	31 Jan 2025

Citation

Ram Prasad Rai, Bam Dev Sharma. “Teaching Presentation Skills: An Effective Tool to Enhance University Beginners’ Learning.” DS Journal of Multidisciplinary, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-8, 2025.

Abstract

Presentation is one of the academic skills of the present time, and it is a tool to improve in academic courses. Students, especially at the college level, need this skill to enhance their academic qualifications. Professionals, university professors, and students require presentation skills in academic and professional fields to explore their future perspectives. Studies indicate that oral communication and presentation skills can also command other skills and knowledge of life. Presentation skills are very relevant and rational in language classes, where teachers and students can have a chance to engage in several language skills among them. Considering immediate and far reaching implications, this article tries to study how effective presentation can be taught to students in other subject matters or language areas through consistent practice under supervision. One of the tools envisaged in this article is task based approach. The task based approach was applied to university students, and they responded well; thus, this can be the sample for those students who want to study presentation skills.

Keywords

Self-Efficacy, Task based, Rapport, Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication, Cognition.

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