relation: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/5813/ title: What do students and engineers have to say about communicative competence in technical oral presentations? creator: Bhattacharyya, E. creator: Zainal, A.Z. description: 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. © Universiti Putra Malaysia Press. publisher: Universiti Putra Malaysia date: 2015 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Bhattacharyya, E. and Zainal, A.Z. (2015) What do students and engineers have to say about communicative competence in technical oral presentations? Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 23 (August). pp. 123-142. ISSN 01287702 relation: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84958233679&partnerID=40&md5=54bbc8ba6d76dbb79a6866b392a6334d