Oral Com 7

• title of lesson seven?

  public speaking
• • A process of communicating information to a large audience.

  public speaking
• The one who speaks in public speaking is called the “orator” while the listeners are called the "audience"
• 74% of the people suffer from speech anxiety. fear of public speaking is known as 


  Glossophobia
• public speaking aims to inform, persuade, entertain
• 3 types of speeches according to purpose

  1. informative
  2. persuasive
  3. entertainment
• According to Osborn and Osborn (1988), informative speech listeners are asked to attend, comprehend, understand, to assimilate, but not to change their beliefs and behavior.


  speech to inform
• This speech aims to impart knowledge, clarify information, and secure understanding. The speaker’s intention is to inform his audience with facts.

  speech to inform
• Gronbeck (1994) explained that persuasive speaking produces oral messages that increase personal commitment and modify beliefs, attitudes, or values.
• • Speakers who convince their audience to think, believe, and act to a standpoint based on the speakers' reasonable claims and vantage points, use the speech to persuade the audience.
  • The general purpose of persuasion is to change or reinforce attitudes or behaviors

  speech to persuade
• Delivered a speech and used humor or jokes in the course of his speech, one uses speech to entertain. This is a kind of speech that transmits a feeling of pleasure and goodwill to the audience.


  speech to entertain
• The speaker in this kind of speech is gracious, genial, good-natured, and relaxed, and demonstrates to the listeners that he or she is enjoying the pleasant job of speaking to them.


  speech to entertain
• benefits of public speaking

  1. boost self-confidence
  2. enhance reputation
  3. Open for countless opportunities
• 4 STRATEGIES FOR BECOMING A BETTER SPEAKER

  1. practice
  2. ENGAGE YOUR AUDIENCE.
  3. pay attention to your body language
  4. think positively
• 4 TYPES OF SPEECHES

  According to Delivery

  1. Reading from a Manuscript
  2. Memorized Speech
  3. Impromptu Speech
  4. Extemporaneous Speech
• it is also called read speech, manner of speaking where a written speech is read and delivered word for word. This is a preferred mode of presentation when accurate wording is imperative and when time constraints are severe.


  Reading from a Manuscript
• mass media presentation, legal announcement is an example of?

  reading from a manuscript
• It Requires at least as much skill as making a memorized speech. a less time for practicing the delivery of the speech. no familiarization with ideas and thoughts in the speech.


  advantages of reading from a manuscript
• Orators may just tend to read and will not communicate at all.

  may be so engrossed with the manuscript and may tend to disregard their audience. may tend to lose eye contact with their audience. 

  disadvantages of reading from a manuscript
• This is a written speech that is mastered and delivered entirely from memory.

  Memorized Speech
• oratorical contests, and declamation speech is an example of?

  memorized speech
• Enhances the speaker’s memory as he or she is forced to memorize the speech. Requires speaker’s expertise in oral communication.

  Develop the speaker’s general platform behavior.


  advantages of memorized speech
• Orator may just tend to forget if memory is not good. The orator may sometimes present a soliloquy instead of a public speech. Spontaneous and natural presentation may not be practiced.

  disadvantages of memorized speech
• • This is sometimes called “thinking on your feet”.


  impromptu speech
• This is a speech where the speaker develops his or her ideas, thoughts, and language at the moment of time. It is delivered on short notice with little or no preparation at all.

  impromptu speech
• no matter how short the impromptu speech is, it has to have a beginning (introduction), a middle (body of the speech), and an end (conclusion).
• q and a, and ambush interviews is an examples of

  impromptu speech
• There is spontaneity and naturalness in the speech presentation.

  Exhibits speaker’s wit and good oral communication.

  Develop the speaker’s general mental alertness.


  advantages of Impromptu speech
• 1. May show the speaker’s disorganized and erroneous language during the delivery.
  2. Some important points or ideas may not be presented due to a lack of time and preparation.


  disadvantages of impromptu speech
• This is a speech where the topics or ideas are prepared beforehand; however, the speaker composes his or her views and language only at the moment of delivery.

  This is also a speech that is practiced but not written or memorized.


  extemporaneous speech
• debate is example of extemporaneous speech
• It can develop the speaker’s careful organization of ideas and choice of words. Allows the speaker to monitor and adjust to the audience’s response.


  advantages of extemporaneous speech
• Lack the preciseness and careful presentation of the speaker’s thoughts and language. The speaker’s main points may not be presented well.


  disadvantages of extemporaneous speech