Class discussion plays a very important role in improving the writing and presentational skills of students.
Yu Un Ju, a researcher at the Faculty of Management of Industrial Economy, has successfully improved their presentational skills by arranging heated discussions and arguments among students.
First of all, she makes clear the points to be discussed in the next discussion class.
Considering the characteristics of the subject, she gives every student different questions and lets them take part in the discussion with enough study.
Sometimes it is impossible because students outnumber questions. Therefore, she puts students into as many groups as the number of questions so that the students in the same group can decide by themselves detailed topics on the same points.
As a result, every student tries to make a detailed study of their points in combination with reality rather than copying others.
In addition, she confines presentation time to 5 minutes so that as many students as possible can give presentations in 90 minutes. Thus, students get rid of the outdated idea to fill their presentations with unnecessary contents and instead they try to think and study more deeply to give clear presentations in a short time.
Secondly, she changes the way of presentation and evaluates it accurately.
She encourages students to give an appealing presentation with their own words instead of reading the text at the desk as if they gave a lecture to other students. This makes students master their points and even those who lack presentational skills competitively run to the teaching desk with confidence, leading to animated discussions and arguments.
She evaluates students’ presentations with the main aim to fire the zeal of discussion. Mark is one of the means for making students take an active part in class discussions.
She has the result of discussion and presentation of each student evaluated by other students, not by the teacher. All the students listen to the speakers carefully and then express their opinions and give marks for each presentation. Every student puts themselves in teacher’s place, gives their own good views and has a heated argument. This has brought discussions and arguments onto a higher level.
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