学术英语口语技巧(三)

 CSSA学术科普 

学术英语口语技巧(三)

Speaking Skills for Research Purposes (3)

Introduction

大家在外语环境中学习，不可避免需要在课程和答辩等学术场合做presentation。那么，如何准备英语演讲呢？

小编整理了课程Speaking Skills for Research Purposes，将分成上、中、下篇分享给大家！希望对大家在学术交流和学习中有所收获，能在演讲、汇报中清晰、有条理地表达自己的观点，更好的展现自己的能力和才华！

需要解释下，这门课程主要是面向博士阶段，本科和硕士阶段也可以学习运用。大家有兴趣也可以去eltc了解这门课以及其它学术英语学习课程哦！ 

前两篇给大家介绍了英文学术演讲的语言和技巧、演讲的开头介绍和主体部分的主要用语，接下来本文继续介绍在演讲结尾部分使用的词汇和句式，希望大家能有所收获，可以在学术交流中清晰、有条理地表达自己的观点，更好的展现自己的能力和才华。

This is a course for students who feel they need guidance and practice in designing, preparing and delivering oral presentations within their department. It also provide advice on answering questions after presentations, participating in seminars, delivering research papers, interviewing subjects for research purposes, speaking to supervisors and preparing for the oral examination element of the first year review.

· Firstly, pause briefly and signal that you are ready to finish.

· Summarise by giving a short overview of what you have said.

· A good summary gives listeners chance to reflect on what you have said and restates key points they may have missed.

· Follow the summary with the conclusion, i.e. the message you want the audience to take away from your presentation.

· Draw your audience's attention to any references you have drawn on for your presentation

· Thank your audience and invite questions.

Summarising

· We've seen that ....

· First we looked at ... and we saw that ....

· Then we considered ... and I argued .....

· To sum up... 

Concluding

· In conclusion, I'd like to emphasis that ....

· The key point to take away here is...

· All this leads to the conclusion that...

· Clearly, this offers scope for far more research in the future. 

Inviting questions

· If you have any comments or questions, I'll be happy to hear them.

· So that explains my main point. Does anyone have any comments or questions?

· I'd be glad to try and answer any questions.

· Do please feel free to ask any questions.

Buying time

It's almost inevitable that someone will ask you a question you may not be prepared for, or for which you'd like more time to think about before answering. This is a normal part of academic presentations, and there are a number of phrases you can use to help you. Very often, they involve either reformulating the question or asking for clarification of its object.

· I'm sorry, I didn't  know what you said about ....

· If I have you correctly, your question is that ...

· I'm sorry, could you  repeat the question?

· Could you say what you  by ....

· So are you asking me ...

· Would you mind  speaking a little on what you mean by ...?