Speech act

1. I believe there were some positive aspects of my speech. Firstly, I was not a nervous when speaking in front of the audience. This allowed me to have the speech flow smoother than last time. I was not expecting the audience to be as large as it was this time; but I think the increase of people might have helped easy some of my anxiety. My video seemed to be clear enough, the audio was not as good as I had hoped. I am proud I finally got the laptop to work with me and stayed relatively calm…

In our presentation “Lysistrata” I took part of Myrrhine, what I was accomplishing in this scene was to be as precise as I could be. To also have a classy pitch to match the tones of my classmates, as I listened to myself I felt like I did an okay job for the level that I'm at in theatre I wasnt too quiet nor too loud. Something that I would do differently would be probably be to a better pronounciation of words and have a good fluency of the lines that I have to read. My character didn't have…

In my commemorative speech I was able to commemorate my uncle, Robin Speedie. As I was looking through my speech video cast I noticed strengths and areas I could improve in. My strengths in my speech are: (1) My body language. I moved around the room, not staying in the same position. Also, moving my hands while giving my speech and making a connection with the audience by laughing at my own stories and showing eye contact to the audience. (2) Voice Fluency. I was actually surprised by this. As…

Getting up here and talking to you is very rough. Maintaining eye contact, trying not to scramble over my words, and speaking slow enough so you can understand me. But I know that I'm not alone, that about 7% of the population suffers from this as well and those are only the people who got clincalized. My guess is that each one of you has experienced this feeling too. The time that you're heart starts beating out of your chest and there is a knot in your throat. I don’t think we need to be…

ACT Test prevalence Since the ACT is mainly used for measuring readiness for first year college preparatory courses, it doesn 't necessarily measure how ready a student is for higher level courses. The ACT tests, as defined by “Data on Student Preparation, College Readiness, and Achievement in College,” “seek to predict how current students will perform in courses commonly taken by new college students”. Instead of measuring how well you will do in learning and storing the information in…

used to a student’s regular style of presentation, but I was to stand before them and prove myself. This was a test eight years in the making, demanding the all of my writing and speaking abilities for a short thirty seconds. As I stood backstage, my speech echoed in my memory; it was nothing grand, but I was happy with its prose. The presenters before me walked off-stage to mild applause. I waited three seconds, composed my breath, and walked out to a spotlight turned my way. All five hundred…

language development is a process of experience and maturation. Teachers must be aware of children’s cultural language skills, so that they would be able to help and to assist children in their speech. Moreover, there are six stages of language development. First, babies or infants response to language by speech and…

hardest things to do when considering giving a speech is choosing a topic and this gives you a few good suggestions and pointers on how to do it correctly with ease. I t is a good idea to keep in mind, when writing your speech, the general purpose of your speech. It states that you are probably giving a speech for one of two reasons which is to inform your listeners or persuade them. This is important because it will help you create the structure of your speech and get the right tone behind it…

and people’s expressions. Making these observations did help, however, everything had much less significance to me, as I only had a guess about the story’s meaning. Never before did I understand the importance of the differences between language, speech, talking, and communication,…

When giving speeches most of the time the person giving the speech is experiencing Communication apprehension. The definition of Communication apprehension is the level of fear, or anxiety, an individual faces when having to communicate with one or multiple people. I have dealt with Communication apprehension for quite a while now. Although it is not as bad, as it used to be. My freshman year of college, I was actually enrolled in the COMS 130 course, but my fear of public speaking, caused me to…