Abstract
Oral presentation skills are crucial for higher education students. In an increasingly globalized world, the ability to persuasively deliver an oral presentation in English is especially advantageous. However, Japanese university students have lower communication confidence than their other Asian counterparts (Samimy & Kobayashi, 2004). To cultivate communicative competence, oral presentations have been gradually incorporated into EFL classes, with an increasing number of relevant teaching materials and resources available (Yamada, 2021). Nevertheless, whether this trend has enabled students to sufficiently understand the skills required to be a good presenter is undetermined, as little research has been conducted on their attitudes toward and perceptions of such presentations. Thus, the present study aims to explore students’ perceived abilities of presentation skills and their attitudes toward English presentations. Approximately 100 university EFL students in Japan were asked to complete an 18-item questionnaire adapted from a previous study (Yukishige et al., 2007). The collected data were factor-analyzed, and three factors were extracted: “Need for presentations,” “Confidence in the performance stage,” and “Confidence in the preparation stage.” The analyses highlighted the participants’ characteristics in terms of the extracted factors. Furthermore, the students’ academic majors had a significant impact on some of these factors. The detailed results and their pedagogical implications are discussed with the hope of motivating and enhancing communication confidence through presentation instruction.
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Tatsuya Taguchi, Aichi University of Education, Japan
Yuko Matsumura, Kindai University, Japan
Hiroyo Nakagawa, Osaka Jogakuin University/Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
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Conference: SEACE2025
Stream: Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics (including ESL/TESL/TEFL)
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Taguchi T., Matsumura Y., & Nakagawa H. (2025) Investigating Japanese Students’ Attitudes Towards and Perceptions of English Presentations ISSN: 2435-5240 The Southeast Asian Conference on Education 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 541-552) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-5240.2025.45
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-5240.2025.45
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