INTROSPECTION AS A LEARNING STRATEGY IN ORAL PRESENTATION
The article focuses on certain ways to develop speaking skills of those who study English as a foreign language and wish to speak in public to fellow students, colleagues and other interested parties. A most complicated form of communication is a monologue which possesses such essential features as carefully structured composition and definite communicative purposes, as well as certain markers of the speaker's interaction with the audience. To be a success an oral presentation should reflect the speaker's personality which can be achieved by means of introspective analysis of their mental and emotional state. Introspection of one's own speech presupposes nomination and description of intellectual operations taking place in the mind of the speaker in producing a discourse. The principal means of introspective activity is a group of performative verbs whose illocutionary force is made explicit by mere uttering of the lexeme. Their formal, semantic and pragmatic characteristics are viewed in the text of oral presentation which is considered a part of academic functional style. The results of the research can readily be adapted for use in teacher training courses as well as in class as it gives some tips on preparing and organizing a successful oral presentation in English or any other language.