Weaknesses In Group Presentation

TOPIC: Weaknesses in group work during the preparation for group presentations of International Professional English student, School of Foreign Language, Hanoi University of Science and Technology – University of St. Mark and St. John

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW The matter of group work in preparing for oral presentations has been developed on the basic theories of group work, oral presentations and group presentation. In the first main part of this chapter, I will provide reviews on these issues. After that, in the second part, I will mention some prior research projects as well as their strong and weak points that lead me to conduct this study.
2.1. Group work in preparing for oral presentations
2.1.1. Definitions of key terms used

The Bruce Tuckman’s simple model of group development (1965) is one of the best known and most quoted theory about this matter. Johnson and Johnson (1997) said that: ‘Of all the sequential stage theories Tuckman’s emphasis on forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning still seems the most useful and creates the most interest.’ Many other authors also share the same view with Tuckman in group development such as Neil Moonie (2005) in the book “GCE AS Level Health and Social Care”, website Sail.gmu.edu of George Mason university, etc. Let’s look at the stages of group development in

She mentioned six important parts such as topic selection (neither too broad nor too narrow topic), objectives development (goal identification), audience analysis, main ideas organization, supporting information extension and connection between opening, closing and transitions. We realize that her structure is rather semantic and logical with detail information. If students apply these steps in contributing contents, they can gain more success than those students that don’t use them.
Secondly, using visual aids in the oral presentation is also critical to create the successful oral presentation. Basing on the content development, building presentation slides depends on the context of the talk. According to module of School of Foreign Languages - Hanoi University of Science and Technology (2012), the power point is divided into seven main points: title, objectives, outline, body slides (including the text, graph, etc.), summary, conclusion and references. Because the length of each part is different, the number of slides of each part is also