To Speak Like a TED Speaker—A Case Study of TED Motivated English Public Speaking Study in EFL Teaching

To Speak Like a TED Speaker—A Case Study of TED Motivated

English Public Speaking Study in EFL Teaching

Yingxia Li, Ying Gao & Dongyu Zhang

One of the efforts to change the “Chinese pattern” of Public Speaking is the wide spread and popularization of TED speech videos, especially among university campus. There are some advantages l have found by using of it, such as: offer a wide range of topics, covering from literature to technology, entertainment to politics, provide challenging listening resources for students and self-evaluation and feedback. Method that used was note taking. Students were required to write down the main idea of the TED speech they watched, a process entails induction, assimilation, and integration. Meanwhile, they need to write down a brief comment on the ideas of the speaker. That is, to what extent they agree or disagree with the opinions given by the speaker then they have to deliver their speech fluently.

However l have some planning in the future when l become a teacher. They are:

1.     Guiding students to enhance their abilities in logic thinking and inference

2.     Student centred

3.     Great of resources like English movies, TV series, test soundtracks