Business English Presentation Simulations - Do They Truly Enhance Foreign Language Communicative Competence?

Suharno Suharno

2017

Abstract

The study is aimed at investigating the use of business English in business presentation simulation at linguistics and literature study program in one public university in Bandung. The research particularly explored the use of business presentation simulations to observe how patterns of linguistic interactions among students were structured which was, as a final point, to find out whether the business presentation simulations could enhance linguistic competence and how significant the enhancement was. The research employed Interrupted Time Series design (ITS) advocated by Campbell and Stanley (2015). The data were gathered through videotaping students’ individual presentation at the beginning of, mid, and end of the semester. The students’ presentation performance was rated to yield quantitative data. To see students’ FLCC improvement from one presentation to another, t-test was administered. To enhance its validity, the videos were also transcribed, coded and analyzed using QDA Miner (Onwuegbuzie and Frels, 2016). The qualitative data analysis was also quantified to discover frequency of errors each participant made in his/her respective presentation simulation. The analysis of the data revealed that presentation simulations had made significant improvement in students’ FLCC.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Suharno S. (2017). Business English Presentation Simulations - Do They Truly Enhance Foreign Language Communicative Competence?.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 505-511. DOI: 10.5220/0007170005050511

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Suharno Suharno},
title={Business English Presentation Simulations - Do They Truly Enhance Foreign Language Communicative Competence?},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={505-511},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007170005050511},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Business English Presentation Simulations - Do They Truly Enhance Foreign Language Communicative Competence?
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Suharno S.
PY - 2017
SP - 505
EP - 511
DO - 10.5220/0007170005050511