On Fostering Oral Skills in ESP
On Fostering Oral Skills in ESP

Summary/Abstract: Oral skills for ESP students are vital for their professional communication at seminars, workshops, student conferences and professional associations. However, the students’ oral presentations lack fluency and accuracy, which is caused by inability to process the ESP lexis spontaneously. When put under professional precision pressure, learners keep mentally translating from their native tongue before speaking and often inappropriately replace professional lexis by rudimentary vocabulary. Therefore, what is meant under oral skills in ESP is, primarily, a learner ability to produce accurate target language lexical term and word combination equivalents in impromptu situations.

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