Stephen van Vlack

Sookmyung Women`s University

Division of English Language and Literature

English for International Communication

Spring 2007

Week 5 - English in the Outer Core

Guidelines for Presentations and Reports

In this the fifth week of class students, in groups of two and three, will write up reports and give presentations on the development and current status of English in a particular outer core country.. The purpose of these reports/presentations is to give students an idea of how a powerful language night spread and actually be used so that we can better understand the role that English as a global language plays in the world today.

For this week I would suggest that the students first write up their report and develop the presentation from the contents of the report. Following this I will, therefore, first explain a bit about the report. The report should cover two basic aspects of the country the students are to present in its relation to English. The first of these should be the historical background of English in the country including a description of how it came to be used and by whom. The second aspect that needs to be covered pertains to the social aspects of English and its current use in the country you are doing.

Information for these reports is best gathered from web resources. Make sure that all sources are cited in the body of the paper and listed fully in the reference section of the report.

As for the presentations, they should be ten minutes in length and should include visual and text accompaniment (typically in the form of Powerpoint). Presentations should summarize the content of the reports and should not present any different information. There will be a question and answer session after the initial ten minutes presentation time. Be prepared to answer questions.