Speaking Practice Seminar for Researchers

Description

Need help presenting your research orally?

ORGANISATION & OBJECTIVES

The content of this 25-hour workshop (20 hours of workshop and 5 hours of homework) is flexible and can be customized: a questionnaire is sent to participants before the start of the seminar in order to create a programme that best meets their needs.

The workshop takes place in January and is spread over 4 days (2 days/week). It is open to all UMONS researchers and doctoral students. However, a minimum level of B1+ is desirable.

The aim is to prepare participants to share and disseminate their research with ease at future colloquia, seminars or conferences.

CONTENT

The workshop will focus on the following points:

• practising language skills with a view to presenting and disseminating one’s research
• practising pesentation skills (voice, fluency, rhythm, body language, use of and interaction with a PowerPoint…)
• practising said skills in 2 distinct formats: presentation of one’s research to a scientific audience (20′) and short popularization presentation such as ‘my thesis in 180 seconds’.
• designing a clear and effective PowerPoint

2 weeks before the start of the seminar, participants will be asked to send:

• an abstract of their current research
• an existing PowerPoint of a paper they have already presented

PARTICIPANTS WILL GET:

• personalised feedback on how to improve presentation techniques, pronunciation and the quality of written material
• grammar tutorials (if necessary)
• listening training (discussing and synthesizing orally popularised documents in the style of “TED talks”)

TEACHER: Bénédicte Bouchet

SCHEDULE:

Week 1 – Monday 19/01/26 and Thursday 22/01/26   Week 2 Monday 26/01/26 and Thursday 29/01/26

Time : 10.30 am – 12.30 pm and 1.30 – 4.30 pm

Registration deadline: 8 January 2025

LOCATION: UMONS, plaine de Nimy (to be confirmed)