Building Confidence, Performative Habits, and Interdisciplinary Audience Awareness Through Presentations in a Graduate-Level Academic Oral Communication Course

Joseph Davies is Senior Lecturer of English Language and Assistant Director for Graduate English for Academic Purposes at Duke Kunshan University's Language and Culture Center. Joseph's current research interests are in higher education assessment, focusing on feedback, specifically second language student feedback literacy, teacher feedback literacy, and feedback culture within Sino-foreign higher education contexts. His research has been published in academic journals such as Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. Joseph has a First Class B.Sc. (honors) in forensic science and an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages with Applied Linguistics. He also holds a Cambridge University DELTA qualification and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Joseph has over 15 years' experience designing, managing and teaching academic and professional English-language courses throughout China. Joseph has lectured at New York University Shanghai and previously served as business development lead for one of the UK's largest universities, establishing, maintaining, and enhancing academic partnerships throughout China.