Oral Presentation（self-evaluation）

鍾洛昀

I』ve always tried to avoid oral training courses.  「What』s with a class with people sitting around talking in English?  We』re already English majors, aren』t we?」 a little voice inside my head says.  The whole idea just seemed quite pointless to me some how.  At least personally I don』t see the need.

        It』s just impossible to resist a course taught by Jo, so I decided to give this class a shot.  We started the course with articulate small talk, then gradually putting it public in order to polish our enouncing skills.  You don』t get to pretend to be a world-renowned celebrity in just any class.  I sure enjoyed my day as Amy Tan in the fancy ethnic dress.  Of course we can』t forget those interesting songs, the songs with stories and history.

        The class was more about the power of language and voice, than merely using English to speak.  The latter part of this course focuses on this part especially.  I think these techniques in the usage of language and voice to gain presages ness can be put into use in any language, and delivering a good speech isn』t really about fluency of English, but about being proficiently polished, which is really what I lack and what really ringed my attention.

        Public speaking was always my weak spot, not only because of my shyness, but also the fear of public rejection, hesitation and anxiety about being put under the spot light.  Which leads to my lack of interest in communication: if there is no motive in being professional or aggressive, then how can improvement be in sight?  And there I saw my key problem of refusing to improve.

        This course brought me to face my own inner problems.  Though I have not yet found a diagnosis to my lack of diligence, at least I found the roots of my problem.