Abstract This research aims to identify Bangladeshi undergraduates’ weaknesses in formal presentations and to discern feasible ways to enhance their formal presentation skills. The study is both quantitative and qualitative in nature where the data were collected through the questionnaire responses of 311 randomly selected Bangladeshi undergraduates, the formal presentations observations of 140 randomly selected Bangladeshi undergraduates, and the semi-structured interviews of 18 randomly selected faculty members and employers. Results show that the tertiary level learners of Bangladesh perform poorly in formal presentations mainly because they do not know how to consolidate an argument, and they do not know how to communicate with the audience. The paper recommends as well how tertiary students can sincerely communicate something valuable when they know and believe what they want to say, and they know the audience and care about them.
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