Informace o publikaci
Skills for Life – Independently Prepared Group Presentations on a Legal Topic Revisited – Higher Involvement of Students, Practising Language Mediation and Peer Feedback
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| Rok publikování | 2022 |
| Druh | Kapitola v knize |
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| Popis | Group presentations on a legal topic have been used as a natural component of a legal English course at the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University for a number of years. Nevertheless, requirements have been constantly updated and shaped so that they reflect more real-life situations, which students will face following graduation in their professional lives. Students here are not specifically trained in class by a teacher in presentation skills anymore. Instead, they have access to online resources and training videos in the information system of Masaryk University and given feedback on their mini presentations, and microtasks in classes. Thus, the focus of this complex activity can be observed in stages or steps. Through preparing, delivering and giving feedback on other presentations, students work collaboratively and independently primarily outside, but also later in, the classroom. In the first stage of brainstorming a topic and working on a research question for their presentation, the focus is not only on students´ creativity, group work, leadership skills, time management and negotiation skills, but also academic skills. In this stage they prepare an abstract, which is shared in MS Teams, and they provide peer feedback on other abstracts of their classmates. Then having learned from peer feedback, they shape the final form of their respective presentations. In the second stage, when presentations are delivered, the focus is on presentation skills, visual support, body language, eye contact, group coordination and cooperation, content, logical structure, and quality of the language (academic and professional [legal] English) and language mediation. Presenters receive structured peer feedback and are assessed by a teacher. In the third stage, presenters may watch their performance recorded by the teacher, and thus learn from their mistakes and compare whether the feedback encapsulates the strong points of the presentation, and highlights the vital areas requiring improvement. Group presentations on a legal topic have been used as a natural component of a legal English course at the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University for a number of years. Nevertheless, requirements have been constantly updated and shaped so that they reflect more real-life situations, which students will face following graduation in their professional lives. Students here are not specifically trained in class by a teacher in presentation skills anymore. Instead, they have access to online resources and training videos in the information system of Masaryk University and given feedback on their mini presentations, and microtasks in classes. Thus, the focus of this complex activity can be observed in stages or steps. Through preparing, delivering and giving feedback on other presentations, students work collaboratively and independently primarily outside, but also later in, the classroom. In the first stage of brainstorming a topic and working on a research question for their presentation, the focus is not only on students´ creativity, group work, leadership skills, time management and negotiation skills, but also academic skills. In this stage they prepare an abstract, which is shared in MS Teams, and they provide peer feedback on other abstracts of their classmates. Then having learned from peer feedback, they shape the final form of their respective presentations. In the second stage, when presentations are delivered, the focus is on presentation skills, visual support, body language, eye contact, group coordination and cooperation, content, logical structure, and quality of the language (academic and professional [legal] English) and language mediation. |