Communication Skills

1. Lecture 23 Communication Skills Speaking Skill

2. Recap • Role of the Resume • Types of Resumes • Resume Formats • Resume Sections • Additional Documentation • Miscellaneous Tips • Miscellaneous Tilts • Sample Resumes

3. What is Speaking? • Speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producingandreceiving andprocessing information (Brown, 1994; Burns & Joyce, 1997).

4. What is Speaking? • Its form and meaning are dependent on the context in which it occurs, including: • the participants themselves • their collective experiences • the physical environment and • the purposes for speaking

5. What is Speaking? • Speaking is: • Spontaneous • open-ended • Evolving • Unpredictable (not always)

6. What is Speaking? • the expected discourse sequence includes: • a statement of need • response to the need • offer of appreciation • acknowledgement of the appreciation, and • a leave-taking exchange

7. What a Good Speaker Does? • Speakers must be able to anticipate and then produce the expected patterns of specific discourse situations. • They must also manage discrete elements such as turn-taking, rephrasing, providing feedback, or redirecting (Burns & Joyce, 1997).

8. What a Good Speaker Does? • Other skills and knowledge that instruction might address include the following:  • producing the sounds, • stress patterns, • rhythmic structures, and • intonations of the language; • using grammar structures accurately; • assessing characteristics of the target audience, • including shared knowledge or shared points of reference, • status and power relations of participants, • interest levels, or • differences in perspectives

9. Tips to practice Speaking • Dialogue • Role plays • Drills • Speaking with an outline • Monologue • Short Speech

10. 30 - Tips For A Beginner In Public Speaking

11. The ability to speak in front of audience is considered as a sign of Self-confidence. Why Speak in Public ?

12. Public Speaking • Matter • Language • Style INTRODUCTION

13. Public Speaking • #1 • Start with a proper GREETING to the judges and audience Matter

14. Public Speaking • #2 • ORGANISE your speech into three basic parts • Attractive - INTRODUCTION • Meaningful - MAIN SPEECH • Clear & Crisp - CONCLUSION Matter

15. Public Speaking • #3 • MAKE the introduction BRIEF but ATTENTION GATHERING Matter

16. Public Speaking • #4 • OPEN your speech with any one of the four techniques : • Quotation • Example • Definition • Humour ( HUMOUR is little difficult to deliver ; unless you are good at telling jokes, DON’T try this technique ) Matter

17. Public Speaking • #5 • MAKE NO more than THREE major points in a three minutes speech Matter

18. Public Speaking • #6 • STRUCTURE the points as under • a) MAKE a single & clear statement of your point • b) ELABORATE the point in few sentences • c) Give one or two examples to support the point (sequence may vary c,a,b..) Matter

19. Public Speaking • #7 • BALANCE the points to consider all aspects of situation. Matter

20. Public Speaking • #8 • EMPHASIZE your arguments but don’t show bias. Matter

21. Public Speaking • #9 • MOVE from one point to another -LOGICALLY & SMOOTHLY Matter

22. Public Speaking • #10 • END with a word of thanks. Matter

23. Public Speaking- LANGUAGE #11 • AVOID grammatical faults LANGUAGE

24. Public Speaking • #12 • USE correct pronunciation LANGUAGE

25. Public Speaking • #13 • USE the right word as far as possible ( You should have / develop a good vocabulary to do this ) LANGUAGE

26. Public Speaking • #14 • PREFER simple sentences. Similarly prefer direct speech (active voice) to reported speech (passive voice) LANGUAGE

27. Public Speaking • #15 CITE specific example instead of making generalizations. LANGUAGE

28. Public Speaking • #16 • CREATE word pictures • Example - say : “My friend Ram”, instead of “a friend” • Say : “It is hard as maths to me” , not weakly “it is hard” LANGUAGE

29. Public Speaking • #17 • USE pauses appropriately (when you make an important / major point - it will sink into the minds of your audience well) LANGUAGE

30. Public Speaking • #18 • SPEAK fluently LANGUAGE

31. Public Speaking • #19 • AVOID : • Putting on an unnatural / foreign accent LANGUAGE

32. Public Speaking • #20 • AVOID : • Use of big words to show off jargon, slang & cliches LANGUAGE

33. Public Speaking- STYLE • #21 • TAKE a good look at the audience, judges and the arrangements while you are waiting for your turn to speak. STYLE

34. Public Speaking • #22 • WALK at your normal pace to the dais / speaker podium when called to speak STYLE

35. Public Speaking • #23 • STAND erect, but not stiff STYLE

36. Public Speaking • #24 • LOOK at judges, audience and take a deep breath. STYLE

37. Public Speaking • #25 • SMILE at the most friendly face (pretty / handsome one) you can see in the audience - if you prefer ! Now begin speaking. STYLE

38. Public Speaking • #26 • KEEP your voice at a level that suits the size of the audience and the hall / room STYLE

39. Public Speaking • #27 • SPEAK at your natural speed (like when you talk to your friends or at home) STYLE

40. Public Speaking • #28 • LOOK at different sections of the audience once in a while. (Don’t stare at someone or a particular object in the room) STYLE

41. Public Speaking • #29 • ALLOW your hands the natural gestures they are used to, while you speak. STYLE

42. Public Speaking • #30 • After you finish your speech pause briefly, take a couple of steps back and then RETURN to your seat. STYLE

43. Activity • Street Light

44. Strategies for Developing Speaking Skills •  Using minimal responses Language learners who lack confidence in their ability to participate successfully in oral interaction often listen in silence while others do the talking. These type of learners must: • Begin with minimal responses that they can use in different types of exchanges • Predictable • idiomatic phrases • They help to indicate: • Understanding • agreement • doubt, and • other responses to what another speaker is saying.

45. Strategies for Developing Speaking Skills • Recognizing scripts • Some communication situations are associated with a predictable set of spoken exchanges -- a script. Greetings, apologies, compliments, invitations, and other functions that are influenced by social and cultural norms often follow patterns or scripts. So do the transactional exchanges involved in activities such as obtaining information and making a purchase. In these scripts, the relationship between a speaker's turn and the one that follows it can often be anticipated. • Instructors can help students develop speaking ability by making them aware of the scripts for different situations so that they can predict what they will hear and what they will need to say in response. Through interactive activities, instructors can give students practice in managing and varying the language that different scripts contain.

46. Strategies for Developing Speaking Skills • Using language to talk about language • Language learners are often too embarrassed or shy to say anything when they do not understand another speaker or when they realize that a conversation partner has not understood them. Instructors can help students overcome this reticence by assuring them that misunderstanding and the need for clarification can occur in any type of interaction, whatever the participants' language skill levels. Instructors can also give students strategies and phrases to use for clarification and comprehension check. • By encouraging students to use clarification phrases in class when misunderstanding occurs, and by responding positively when they do, instructors can create an authentic practice environment within the classroom itself. As they develop control of various clarification strategies, students will gain confidence in their ability to manage the various communication situations that they may encounter outside the classroom.

47. Recap • What is Speaking? • What makes a Good Speaker? • 30 Tips to improve Public Speaking • Strategies for Developing Speaking Skills

48. References • file:///C:/Users/Administrator/Desktop/speaking/What%20speaking%20is.htm • file:///C:/Users/Administrator/Desktop/speaking/Strategies%20for%20Developing%20Speaking%20Skills.htm