Twenty-sixth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore current approaches to English Public Speaking (EPS) in today’s postgraduate higher education learners, who should be committed to continuously enhance their communication skills in a ubiquitous lifelong learning education as 21st-century professionals. Communication requires input and output techniques. This proposal, particularly, focuses on the oral presentations built by different postgraduates of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in the field of Telecommunications Engineering. The content and context of their projects will be analysed paying attention to the professional vocabulary application, the collaborative learning process and the communicative delivery strategies used in their speeches. Collaborative and self-directed EPS strategies, together with ubiquitous learning programs focused on creativity, were implemented to improve confidence and to convey meaning by and for learners, who become the builders of their own knowledge in an ESP/EPS global scenario, set in Higher Education.