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EXPRESSING VIEWS IN DISCUSSION/SEMINARS - Coggle Diagram
EXPRESSING VIEWS IN
DISCUSSION/SEMINARS
DISCUSSION
How to participate
Learn formulaic language
Giving opinion, agreeing and disagreeing and ask for clarifying.
5 SKILLS INVOLVE IN DISCUSSION
Taking part
- Why discussion important and how to take part effectively.
to help you understand a subject more deeply
to enable you to share ideas and insights with other students
to hear the thoughts and ideas of other students
to challenge and perhaps change your ideas
Giving opinion
- How to state your opinion and ask for others' opinions.
Agreeing and disagreeing
- Learn to agree and disagree in the academic context.
Clarifying
- It's important to clarify when you don't understand.
Other skills
- Study language for other important discussion skills, namely giving suggestions and expressing uncertainty.
EFFECTIVE DISCUSSION
Individual Action
Prepare for the topic
Listen to others
be willing to change your opinions
not afraid to give your honest opinion
Give chances to others to speak.
Allows other to finish without interrupting.
Group Action
Set clear aim, so everyone knows the outcome of this discussion.
Timetable for the discussion stage, time limit for discussion itself.
Everyone must contributes by speaking their own opinion
Give time for summing up what has been decided and agreed.
IMPROVING DISCUSSION SKILLS
Prepare
- You will not be able to contribute to a discussion unless you are well-prepared and already understand the topic fairly well. Do further reading on your own.
Listen
- A good speaker needs to be a good listener. The more you practice your listening, the more you will find yourself understanding. Try to find the main ideas and related it to what you have learned and taught.
Participate
- Even though you lack confidence, you need to take part in the discussion. Take small steps like agreeing with others' opinions, ask someone for clarifying.
GIVING & ASKING FOR OPINIONS
Giving Opinions
- Take part effectively means you need to make your ideas clear which means you'll have to voice out your opinions. However, this action alone is not enough. You need to support your idea by giving evidence.
Asking for Opinions
- This allow the group members to join the discussion and give them the chances to speak their opinion. This also allow you to know whether they agree or not with your opinion.
AGREEING & DISAGREEING
You will need to argue your point, in other words, give your opinion on certain topics, with reasons and evidence. You should try to disagree politely by first acknowledging their opinion before saying why you disagree. It is also possible to simply disagree but it may seem rude.
Example:-
Agreeing
Yes.
Yes, that’s right.
Yes, I agree with you.
I agree (with/that)...
Disagreeing
No, I don’t really agree.
I don’t really agree with you.
I don’t agree with that at all.
(I’m afraid) I don’t think that’s right.
CLARIFYING
This is to make sure you understand the topic of the discussion.
The verb to clarify means to make something clearer and so the response should help to make the information clearer and easier for the listener to understand.
The speaker is likely to paraphrase the information and give
additional detail to aid understanding.
Example:-
Asking for clarification
Sorry, I didn’t understand what you said about...
I didn’t quite understand what you meant about/by...
What did you mean about/by...
GIVING SUGGESTION
In relation to a situation or problem, you may need to give suggestions.
Academic language, even in discussions, tends to be fairly tentative, so you may also need to express certainty/uncertainty.
Example:-
I suggest that...
What about...?
How about...?
It might be an idea to...
One option would be to...