Speaking Practice for Scientists
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LanguageEnglish
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DateStarting 20/01/2024
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Period(s)1st semester
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Length20H
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: 20/01/25 – 23/01/25 – 27/01/25 – 30/01/25 from 10:30 to 12:30 and from 13:30 to 16:30
Registration deadline: 8 January 2025
LOCATION: UMONS, plaine de Nimy (to be confirmed)