TY  - JOUR
EP  - 142
PB  - Universiti Putra Malaysia
SN  - 01287702
TI  - What do students and engineers have to say about communicative competence in technical oral presentations?
SP  - 123
N1  - cited By 4
AV  - none
VL  - 23
JF  - Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
A1  - Bhattacharyya, E.
A1  - Zainal, A.Z.
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84958233679&partnerID=40&md5=54bbc8ba6d76dbb79a6866b392a6334d
Y1  - 2015///
ID  - scholars5813
N2  - 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.
IS  - August
ER  -