Scientific presentation at IEEE conferences in Asia: Observational and survey findings

Observation of presentations at a conference in the field of network and sensor engineering (ICNSC 2009), and a survey from participants at a conference on fuzzy and artificial intelligence and neural networks (19^th Intelligent System Symposium), both hosted by IEEE-affiliated units in Japan, along with findings from recent research on the intelligibility of the English of non-native speakers in international contexts, are presented. Findings indicate that the use of English as the lingua franca of science, when used by non-native speakers of English (NNSEs) to other NNSEs, has organically produced new strategies of oral presentation. NNSE participants report that speaker presentation of text-dense slides increases their own comprehension of the research being presented.