PRAGMATIC AND RHETORICAL COMPETENCE IN PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS. ISSUES AND STRATEGIES
PRAGMATIC AND RHETORICAL COMPETENCE IN PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS. ISSUES AND STRATEGIES

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to clarify which tools are necessary for teaching pragmatic andrhetorical competence, especially in the technical field. Second-year students at the UniversityPolitehnica of Bucharest were required to deliver professional presentations, as a means ofshifting attention from the grammatical to the communicative properties of language. The articleproposes that professional presentations be used as an alternative to more traditional manners oflanguage teaching. Moreover, it provides various suggestions for drafting professionalpresentations, at the same time detailing the teaching process that helps students develop thenecessary skills to write them

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