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creators_name: Bhattacharyya, E.
creators_name: Zainal, A.Z.
title: What do students and engineers have to say about communicative competence in technical oral presentations?
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abstract: 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.
date: 2015
publisher: Universiti Putra Malaysia
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full_text_status: none
publication: Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
volume: 23
number: August
pagerange: 123-142
refereed: TRUE
issn: 01287702
citation:   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