Madrid, España
The demands of the university context require the analysis and systematization of textual genres, both oral and written. Moreover, the importance of dealing with the needs of students of Tertiary Education urges us to speed up the task of characterizing the academic texts in first and second language. The aim of this study is to analyze the global structure of 20 academic oral presentations made by students from the United States. The participants were learners of Spanish as a second language in an immersion context at a Spanish university. As a result of the above analysis, this study offers a proposal of the global structure of academic oral presentations based on Villar’s (2014) model.