Abstract:

As information and communication technologies are rapidly developing today, learning expectations students have from their education and educators are growing either. In this term, undergraduates rely heavily on their tutors and expect them to be knowledgeable and up-to-date. Would-be engineers studying a foreign language not only want to gain the theoretical understanding of the subject. They are eager to learn how to use it in their further career. One of the most necessary and exclusively demanded skills is that of presentation and self-presentation. When doing their Bachelor’s and Master’ degrees in Engineering and meanwhile studying a foreign language, students eventually face the problem of being able to make and give a presentation both in their native and foreign languages. Graduates hope to join big international companies, where they are certainly expected to competently and professionally convey and share their ideas and thoughts, talk about their achievements and projects, provide their speech with modern data and relevantly illustrate it by visual means, show their readiness and ability to respond to other peoples’ remarks and critics. It is the variety of communication abilities as well as information knowledge that a teacher should foster in their students. In this respect, a vital problem any university teacher should tackle at present is enhancing students ability to make an efficient presentation and self-presentation, to be able to encourage and inspire so that they use modern information and communication tools. The methods proposed in this study can be useful for university tutors who teach students how to master their presentation skills, acting as a practical guide for conducting classes.

Keywords:

Presentation, self-presentation, communication skills, information technologies, teacher’s image, student’s social profile, visual aids, learning expectations.