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Pecha Kucha Pecha Kucha or Pechakucha is the Japanese words for conversation or
“chit-chat”. It was aimed to seek a way to encourage presenters to use Power Point in a more organized manner. According to Dytham 2015, it is
a presentation style in which twenty slides are shown for twenty seconds each six minutes and forty seconds in total. Few words are used with relevant pictures and
graphics being ordered in the PowerPoint. Pecha Kucha is designed to force speakers to prepare shorter, more creative and more polished Power Point
presentation. Because Pecha Kucha slides progress automatically, the presenter cannot stop to advance a slide manually or go back to a previous slide. This forces
the presenter to practice his presentation, a step that many speakers tend to skip when they know they are simply reading slides aloud to the audience. More
importantly, designing Pecha Kucha presentation motivates speakers to think about their subjects in very different ways. Generally, Pecha Kucha can be
implemented for a presentation in a seminar and other similar occasions. In this study, the implementation of Pecha Kucha was only limited especially to be
practiced in the language learning for students in the CLS 2 class. The Pecha Kucha presentation method is very effective as a cure for „death by PowerPoint‟,
which refers to a common disease at conferences and in language classrooms brought about by boredom and fatigue when too many and too complex
PowerPoint slides are used Tomsett Shaw, 2014. Therefore, the Pecha Kucha style also could be implemented as a way of presentation in the language teaching.
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