Oral Communication

• Speech context


  • The environment where communication takes place
  • The set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event or situation
  • The situation that brings people to a conversation or a speaking event
• Elements of speech context

  • The person speaking
  • The situation, event, or occasion
  • The person(s) being addressed
• Types of speech context

  • Intrapersonal
  • Public communication
  • Interpersonal
  • Mass communication
• Intrapersonal communication


  Communication with one's self, such as talking to or writing to oneself, even thinking to oneself
• Interpersonal communication


  Communication between and among people that establishes personal relationships
• Types of interpersonal communication

  • Dyadic communication (2 participants)
  • Small group communication (3-15 people)
• Dyadic communication


  Involves only two participants forming the dyad, where the roles of speaker and listener are interchangeable
• Dyadic communication


  • Offering feedback on the speech performance of your classmate
  • Providing comfort to a friend who was feeling down
• Small group communication


  Requires from 3 to 15 people to study an issue, discuss a problem, and come up with a solution or a plan
• Public communication


  Involves a single speaker and a sizable number of persons or an audience, where the speaker delivers a message or a speech of general interest
• Public communication


  • Delivering a graduation speech to your batch
  • Participating in a declamation, oratorical contest or debate watched by many people
• Mass communication


  Communication that takes place through television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, internet, and other types of media, including social media
• Mass communication


  • Being a student journalist articulating your stand on current issues through the school's newspaper
  • Being a news reporter bringing the news of eliminating senior high school in the k + 12 curriculum