ORALCOM WEEK 67

I. DISCUSSION
Do you wish to become a great speaker? Good news! This module discusses the principles and
tools of effective speech delivery to help you achieve that purpose. Effective speaking means being
able to say what you need to say in a manner that it is heard and acted upon. According to Stephen
Lucas (2011), author of The Art of Public Speaking, a good delivery means that you are capable and
able to present your message in a clear, coherent, and interesting way. In addition to this, he also says:
Good delivery…conveys the speaker’s ideas clearly, interestingly, and without distracting the
audience. Most audiences prefer delivery that combines a certain degree of formality with the best
attributes of good conversation— directness, spontaneity, animation, vocal and facial
expressiveness, and a lively sense of communication (p. 244).

Tools for Effective Speech Delivery

Articulation
People always judge how well you speak in general. The perceived intellect or education is
sometimes used to measure how well you articulate. The instance on how well and precisely you form
vowels and consonants using your lips, tongue, jaw, and palate to form the sounds to speak is crucial in
making your message get crossed. On the same idea, diction and enunciation are other forms of
articulation.

For example, saying “going to” instead of “gonna” or “want to” instead of “wanna” are instances of
good versus poor articulation. Proper diction in articulation is important in speaking which needs a
lot of practice.
Modulation
This happens when you control or adjust the tone or volume of your voice as you try to lower your
voice to a loud whisper in order to get the attention of your audience as they find your message more
appealing, dramatic and mysterious. Modulation has various meanings, such as a change of key in
music or of the sound of a person's voice.
Stage Presence
The speaker’s ability to get and secure the audience's interest in listening to him/her through his or
her presentation style refers to stage presence. Every time the speaker faces his audience, he is
encouraged to keep his poise, posture, gestures, and movements since they may make or break the
presentation.
A good stage presence essentially engages the audience into the performance. It is the ability to
make the audience connect with the speaker and pull them into the story being told, and as a result, the
audience are affected by the feelings, emotions, and ideas being conveyed.
Facial expressions
To effectively communicate emotions and enthusiasm while speaking, the speaker must use
emphatic and descriptive gestures. These help enhance the verbal content of our speech. Gestures
should appear spontaneous but purposeful. Movements from the waist down should be decisively used
to emphasize a point or as a transition during a speech.
Facial expressions are essential in setting the emotional tone for a speech. It is really helpful that
facial expressions jive with the message being delivered. To achieve the positive tone of the speaker
before he begins, he simply must glance at the audience and smile. A smile may be simple but its value
is indispensable in communicating friendliness, openness, and confidence. In addition, facial
expressions communicate various types of emotions which reflect the speaker’s moods and personality
traits.
For instance, mix of many facial expressions can communicate the speaker’s feelings, excitement,
frustration, confusion, sadness, confidence, aspiration, happiness, etc. Even if the audience does not
feel bored, for example, a slack blank face may give the audience the impression that the speaker is
bored with his own speech or that the entire message is uninteresting and boring.

Arm and hand movements constitute gesture. We all may have developed our native culture and
we tend to internalize them as we speak. Becoming fluent in a language is part of this process. On the
other hand, we also become fluent in nonverbal communication through our gestures. We all use hand
gestures while we speak, but we didn’t ever go to any class in learning how to match our verbal
communication with the appropriate gestures; we just internalized on these norms as a result of long
period of time based on observation later incorporate them as we speak. By this point in your life, you
 have a whole vocabulary of hand movements and gestures that spontaneously come out while you’re
speaking. Some of these gestures are emphatic and some are descriptive (Koch, 2007).
Movement of the whole body, instead of just gesturing with hands, is appropriate in a speech. It is
suggested that starting speakers hold off attempting to fuse body development starting from the waist
until they have completed at any rate one discourse. This permits you to focus on overseeing
nervousness and spotlight on progressively significant parts of conveyance like vocal assortment,
keeping away from familiarity hiccups and verbal fillers, and improving eye to eye connection. At the
point when you are given the opportunity to move around, it regularly winds up getting skimming or
pacing, which are the two developments that comfort you as a speaker by using anxious vitality
however just serve to divert the crowd.
Rapport
It happens when you have everything in concordance or harmony. Your discourse is correct. The crowd
gets it well. They appreciate tuning in to it as much as you appreciate conveying it. In any case, that
upbeat agreeable state doesn't happen without conscious effort.
Rapport builders are:
 dressing and prepping suitably for the event
 being sorted out, prepared with reasonable substance.
 demonstrating in your opening statements that you know who you are talking to because you have done your
homework.
 utilizing comprehensive language - "we" instead of "I"
 recognizing and accentuating your shared conviction consciously and earnestly
 evading the use of jargon unless everyone understands it.
 indicating that you are human also by sharing your story.
 being aware of non-verbal communication/body language and using eye contact
 seeming sure, positive, in charge and understanding of the effect of vocal delivery