Oral Presentation

We noticed the trend of local and foreign students bonding mainly with their friends who come from similar background. Hence, my group came up with the proposal of creating increased opportunities to facilitate the interaction between these two groups of students. We hope that through these occasions, local and foreign students are able to communicate and get along more comfortably with each other instead of minimizing their interaction for fear of awkwardness or differences in cultures.

My group then spent several weeks to come up with the proposal and also preparations for the oral presentation. However, even though we were clear of our aim of our proposal, we were not able to decide on a specific program to carry out our plan. There were many disagreements and confusions throughout our project discussion. One reason for those was due to our culturally different backgrounds as all of us are of different nationalities and thus, we have very different perspectives about the feasibility of the different ideas each of us came up to carry out the plan. Due to these differences of opinions, we wasted much time and finally settled on a program, which we named it ‘SEP Engage’.

The whole idea of SEP Engage was meant to increase the interaction between the local and international students and the steps, if it could be implemented, warrant a high success rate. However, due to the lack of sufficient preparations done for the oral presentation, we were not able to effectively convey our proposal to the class. I found it a pity, as if my group had taken more time and effort in preparing the presentation and not on settling the various issues that came up during our group discussion, we would be better able to convey and receive better responses from the class to help us evaluate and improve our plan.