Presentation Guidelines and Tips

Presentation Types
*Paper and selected colloquium presenters
- Link to guidelines
- Link to tips

*Poster presenters
- Link to guidelines
- Link to tips

For paper and selected colloquium presenters

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES 1. PRESENTATION TIME Paper session: Conforming to presentation time limit is critical. Each paper session is allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions and answers. Session moderators will have timekeeping cards to assist you. All presenters should run-through the connection and operation of their equipment and preview their presentation before the first morning session or during lunch time. Selected colloquium session: Colloquium organizers are responsible for communicating with presenters about their session schedule, keeping time, and moderating the session. A total of 2 hours and 15 minutes is allocated for each selected colloquium. Colloquium organizers may divide their time as they choose, but it is recommended that there be enough time allocated for opening and closing remarks, and discussion. All presenters should run-through the connection and operation of their equipment and preview their presentation before the first morning session or during lunch time. 2. ROOM SPECIFICATION Please check your presentation rooms and prepare copies of your handout accordingly. *Keoni Auditorium: 300 people [click here] *Asia room: 60 people [click here] *Pacific room: 60 people [click here] *Tagore room: 25 people [click here] *Sarimanok: 60 people [click here] *Kaniela room: 48 people [click here] *Pago Pago room: 30 people [click here] 3. ROOM EQUIPMENT Each room will be equipped with an overhead projector, an LCD projector, projector screen, and a PC with Windows XP and internet connection. Macintosh users need to bring thier own laptop and a VGA connector. Please send a request for any special tech needs via emal to Yukiko Watanabe (yukikow@hawaii.edu) before September 30th. [Back to top] PRESENTATION TIPS (a) If your paper contains data, present it visually either as a PowerPoint presentation or transparency display. Alternatively, youmay wish to include it on any handouts you provide for audience members. (When you get your presentation slot notification, it will also list your room's maximum capacity, so you can estimate how many handouts to bring along, should you have them.) You are strongly advised to print your handouts in advance. There are several commercial copy shops (e.g., Kinkos) relatively close to the university, as well as copy machines at the university libraries. (b) Presenters, keeping in mind that you will only have 20 minutes for presentation of your paper plus 10 minutes for audience questions & answers, consider keeping any review of literature to a minimum (just covering what is necessary to adequately understand and interpret your study). Often times presenters take nearly 15 minutes to thoroughly review the relevant literature, leaving only 5 minutes for presentation of their own study. This can be terribly frustrating for the audience, many of whom may already be familiar with the literature in the area. Your primary focus should be on your own work and the implications it may have for your audience. (c) Focus on making several key points rather than the detailed and thorough analysis expected of a published paper. The idea should be to stimulate interest in your work and get some useful feedback and discussion from the audience. (d) We strongly recommend that you time and rehearse your presentation in order to comfortably fit it into your given time limit. Keep in mind that the audience is listening to your paper. Often times, if a paper is read word-for-word from a text (i.e., one prepared for publication), it becomes difficult to follow. (e) Finally, each paper has been accepted on the assumption that the research has been or will be completed by the time of the conference in October. If it turns out that your project is not at the point where at least some findings can be presented, we request that you withdraw and provide the opportunity for someone else to participate in the conference. [Back to top]

For poster presenters

PRESENTER GUIDELINES 1. SCHEDULE There will be two poster sessions, October 18th and 19th. Make sure you check which day you are presenting. Posters should be set up in the morning by 9:00 am of your presentation day in the Wailana Room (garden level of the Imin Conference Center). Volunteers will be on hand from 8:00 am to help with set up. Although posters will be displayed full day, the official presentation of posters will take place 1:20 pm–2:20 pm on Saturday and 12:45 pm–1:45 pm on Sunday. During this time, presenters will stand with their posters and interact with the audience. Posters will be taken down by 4:30 pm on the same day. 2. THE DISPLAY SPACE Poster boards stand approximately 6 ft. high from the ground. The maximum poster board dimensions are 63.5 inches high (161.3 cm) X 48 inches wide (116.8 cm). To see the size of the poster board, click [here]. 3. THE POSTER Posters should be designed to fit within the maximum display space. However, note that posters which utilize all of the vertical space may create difficulties for viewing (i.e., it is best to design the poster such that it can be viewed at eye level). Paper or laminated posters will work the best with the display boards, as these are easiest to affix with push pins; pins will be provided to help fasten your poster to the board. If you bring a mounted poster (e.g., using foam core backing material), you will need to bring your own pins as appropriate to the depth of the mounting. [Back to top] POSTER PRESENTATION TIPS (a) A poster outlines all of the key points of your study briefly (e.g., the theoretical framework of your work, your research questions or hypotheses, your methodology, your key findings, and any implications your study might have). Because it is a poster, anyone who walks by and reads it should have a pretty good idea of the main ideas of your work. During your poster presentation period, they can come back, ask you questions, get more details, offer feedback, etc. Poster presentations are more informal than papers, and they offer a great opportunity for one-on-one interaction between speaker and audience members. (b) Posters should be printed out (not handwritten). They also often have graphs, charts, etc. summarizing data if applicable. Some people print out each major section of their study on a separate piece of paper and attach each of those up on the board to form their poster. Others have one large poster, with all the sections on it, specially printed out (copy shops have large-format printers for this purpose), which they can just roll up and take with them. Some even get them laminated or use colors on them. NOTE: You can use Microsoft PowerPoint to create a large poster. Take a look at an example poster here: [click here]. (c) You may want to bring along handouts to distribute during the official poster viewing session. You are strongly advised to print your handouts in advance. There are several commercial copy shops (e.g., Kinkos) relatively close to the university, as well as copy machines at the university libraries. [Back to top]

 

 

Home | Organizers | Sponsors | Call for proposals | Registration | Conference program | Social events | Transportation |
Accommodations | Hawai‘i links | Call for 2009 SLRF host | Past SLRF | SLRF '08 FAQs | Presentation guidelines |

If you need additional information, please contact us.
E-mail: slrf2008@gmail.com
Mail address: SLRF 2008, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i
1890 East-West Rd. Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA. Fax: 1-(808) 956-2802
Webdesign by Marta Gonzalez-Lloret, Deborah Masterson, and Yukiko Watanabe (Webmaster)