Doesn't your department have colloquia and round tables very often? During our first years of grad school, we sat in on these weekly events and witnesses the type of questioning that you describe, so by the time we gave a talk, we knew what to expect.
I work with undergrads and I tell them that the type of feedback that I give them on their paper is NOTHING compared to the type of comments that members of the academic world give to each other - members of our department have shown students modified feedback from some of the articles sent in for publication to show them what types of comments we give each other.
I teach a seminar for our clinical (MA) grad students.
Classic seminar model -- they each give a presentation.
I model academic questioning for them; they eventually get into the spirit themselves.
Certainly nothing as fierce as a good faculty colloquium, but a start.
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