Students will describe, analyse and demonstrate knowledge of public speaking contexts and spoken language presentations for professional purposes from various empirical, methodological, and theoretical perspectives, especially within applied linguistics and communication studies traditions.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will also be able to prepare and deliver their own presentations for a variety of practical public speaking contexts; to use and apply different principles of public speaking to create and evaluate their own presentations; and to constructively critique related research as well as the public speaking of themselves and that of others.