DIFFICULTIES FACED BY THE FOURTH-YEAR ENGLISH MAJORS AT HAI PHONG UNIVERSITY WHILE GIVING A PRESENTATION AND SOME SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS

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Presentation is the process of communicating predetermined messages in a systematic way to
a group of listeners. Learning and performing presentation skills are always a serious problem with English
majors at Hai Phong University, especially the fourth-year students. By using a questionnaire designed to
investigate diffculties that students from Class K18.1 might face, the researcher aims at fnding out the real
problems related to the poor performance of these students. The questions used in the questionnaire focus on
how these students feel before a presentation, what they fnd most diffcult when preparing a presentation,
how is their eye contact during a presentation, how they often use the body language and what problems they
most encounter while using presentation tool such as PowerPoint. At the end of the research, the researcher
offers some suggestions students could get benefts on and improve their presentation.