COMMON QUESTIONS IN THESIS
PROPOSAL DEFENSSE
1. Why did you choose this study?
Answer: We choose this study because we
want to know if the BEED students really
learned and develop their public speaking
skills when they conducted the public
speaking subject through online.
2.What is your thesis proposal all about?
Answer: Our thesis proposal aims to
develop the public speaking skills of general
education student and improve the
curriculum of public speaking subject.
3. What prompted you to propose this
study?
Answer: We noticed that there are many
education students whose public speaking
skills have not developed as a result of 2
year online class. And that’s prompted us to
proposed this study.
4. what’s your statement of the problem?
Answer:1. What are the factors affecting the
development of public speaking skills of
general educations students in terms of:
cognitive, affective and psychomotor
2. What are the ways of gen ed to develop
their public speaking skills.
3. What is the proficiency level of the
general education students in public
speaking in terms of vocabulary, grammar,
fluency and pronunciation
4. What can you suggest to improve the
curriculum of public speaking subject
5. What legal basis do you have?
Answer: HUMAN RIGHT ACT OF 1998
-According to article 10, Everyone has the
right to freedom of expression. This right
shall include freedom to hold opinions and
to receive and impart information and ideas
without interference by public authority and
regardless of frontier.
6. What research method will you use?
Answer: The research method we will use is
the quantitative – descriptive- survey
7. Who will be the respondents?
Answer: 100 4th year general education
students of tsu
8. What sampling method will you use?
Answer: The sampling method we will you
will be the stratified random sampling.
9. how will you gather data?
Answer: We gather data by the use of
questionnaire through Google Form and we
will disseminate it through online via
messenger, email or in the MS teams
account of the respondents.
10. Do you think your proposed study is
timely and useful?
Answer: Yes, because we will know the
effectiveness of online class in the public
speaking subject and If the students really
develop their public speaking skills through
online
11. What is the essence of the proposed
study.
Answer: The essence of this study is to
improve the curriculum of the public
speaking skill and also if you do not give a
chance to approve this study, we will lose a
chance also to discover the insight of the
students about their suggestions to improve
the curriculum and their public speaking
skills.
 Logos – is about persuasion through logic,
data and statistic
And pathos – is about appealing to the
12.There were many studies of this kind emotions of the audience
already. Why proposed still?
17. What finding, or results do you intent to
Answer: We want to address the gap gather?
between past and this present study.
Answer: We will find out the effectiveness
13. Who will be your respondents. Do you of public speaking subject when conducting
think they will cooperate? through online and at the same time we will
suggest to improve the curriculum of public
Answer: The respondents of our study will
speaking.
be the 4th year general education students
and yes I think they will cooperate because
this will be beneficial to them as a future
teacher.
14. What do you mean by public speaking
skills?
Answer: Public speaking is a skills that
possessed by a generalist student and their
effectiveness to deliver a message to their
audiences.
15. What possible contributions can this
study yield?
Answer: The possible contribution can this
study yield is to improve the curriculum of
public speaking subject.
16. What theory can you anchor this study?
Answer: The theory can anchor to this study
is the communication theory.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle, one of the
founding fathers of communication theory
that talks about 3 pillars of communication –
the ethos, logos and pathos.
Ethos – is all about building credibility
with the audience – the audience should
feel that the speaker is the authority on
the topic