Rhetorical Strategies Used by Information Technology Students in In-Class Presentations

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26220%2F23%3APU148219" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26220/23:PU148219 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-education/volume-11-issue-1/article-7/" target="_blank" >https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-education/volume-11-issue-1/article-7/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.22492/ije.11.1.07" target="_blank" >10.22492/ije.11.1.07</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Rhetorical Strategies Used by Information Technology Students in In-Class Presentations

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Rhetoric plays an important role in helping information technology (IT) professionals communicate their ideas clearly and effectively. By employing rhetorical devices when speaking about technology topics, IT professionals can present logical and convincing arguments, and demonstrate their knowledge and expertise while engaging the audience and making complex technical concepts more accessible for non-experts. This study attempts to understand how IT students construct and develop persuasive arguments by analysing their use of rhetorical strategies in a sample of persuasive presentations delivered in the course “English for IT”. Both corpus analysis and manual analysis were used to identify different types of rhetorical strategies students employed to influence their audiences’ attitudes. The results show that IT students not only created a logical appeal which might be more natural for them but also employed a wide range of rhetorical strategies and devices to establish disciplinary credibility and create a more personal connection with their audience, thus maintaining an appropriate balance of logos, ethos and pathos. The study further recommends systematic and careful rhetorical analysis of ESP (English for specific purposes) students’ spoken language across disciplines and the consequent adaption of learning materials and teaching methods to improve ESP students’ rhetoric skills.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Rhetorical Strategies Used by Information Technology Students in In-Class Presentations

Popis výsledku anglicky

Rhetoric plays an important role in helping information technology (IT) professionals communicate their ideas clearly and effectively. By employing rhetorical devices when speaking about technology topics, IT professionals can present logical and convincing arguments, and demonstrate their knowledge and expertise while engaging the audience and making complex technical concepts more accessible for non-experts. This study attempts to understand how IT students construct and develop persuasive arguments by analysing their use of rhetorical strategies in a sample of persuasive presentations delivered in the course “English for IT”. Both corpus analysis and manual analysis were used to identify different types of rhetorical strategies students employed to influence their audiences’ attitudes. The results show that IT students not only created a logical appeal which might be more natural for them but also employed a wide range of rhetorical strategies and devices to establish disciplinary credibility and create a more personal connection with their audience, thus maintaining an appropriate balance of logos, ethos and pathos. The study further recommends systematic and careful rhetorical analysis of ESP (English for specific purposes) students’ spoken language across disciplines and the consequent adaption of learning materials and teaching methods to improve ESP students’ rhetoric skills.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

IAFOR Journal of Education

ISSN

2187-0594

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

11

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

JP - Japonsko

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

121-141

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85161352000