Oral Communication

• Communication


  The importing or exchanging of information
• Modes of communication

  • Oral communication
  • Written communication
• Oral communication


  • Communicating with spoken words
  • Informal
• Written communication


  • Any written message that two or more people exchange
  • Formal
• Elements of communication

  • Context
  • Source/sender
  • Encoding
  • Message
  • Channel
  • Medium
  • Receiver
  • Decoding
  • Feedback
  • Noise
• Context

  The situation, setting or environment where the communication happens, and how the message is relayed during the process
• Source/sender


  The person who sends the message
• Encoding


  Putting thoughts, ideas or information into a symbolic form
• Message

  The key element that is being communicated
• Channel


  The pathway through which the message travels in order to reach its destination
• Medium


  The way we may send our message, through print, sound, electronic or personal
• Receiver


  The person who receives and interprets the message
• Decoding


  The process of analyzing or interpreting the message
• Feedback


  The return process of the communication, which informs the sender if the message was received successfully
• Types of noise

  • Internal noise
  • External noise
• Internal noise

  Anything going on inside the body/mind of the transactor which causes distraction, also called psychological noise
• External noise


  Noise that comes from the environment, outside of the mind
• Aristotle's model of communication


  • Focused on the audience
  • The speaker has a significant role in public speaking
• The speaker must prepare his speech by taking into consideration of his audience - age, education, knowledge of the topic, etc.
• The golden rule in public speaking, lectures, symposia, seminars is that the speaker carefully plans his speech and cautiously chooses his words that will impact the audience's mind