Tips of the Tongue: The Nonnative English Speaker's Guide to Mastering Public Speaking

Tips of the Tongue: The Nonnative English Speaker’s Guide to Mastering Public Speaking is a practical, tactical, and supportive how-to book aimed at addressing the unique problems that nonnative English speakers experience when they deliver a presentation. Presenting in any language is daunting. But this book aims to reduce anxiety while raising proficiency in public speaking whether English is your second, third, fourth—or first—language.

Deborah Grayson Riegel is the director of learning for The Boda Group and the CEO and chief communication coach for Talk Support. She is a lecturer of management communication at the Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. She also served as a visiting professor of executive communications at the Beijing International MBA Program at Peking University.

Ellen Dowling, PhD, president of Dowling & Associates, Inc., has consulted with many organizations in communication skills, management development, and organizational development. Formerly a visiting professor in the Beijing International MBA Program at Peking University, she is the author of The Standup Trainer and co-author of Presenting with Style: Advanced Strategies for Superior Presentations.