Lucas: The Art of Public Speaking‚ 8/e PREFACE If it is true‚ as Walter Pater said‚ that “a book‚ like a person‚ has its fortunes‚” then fortune has indeed smiled upon The Art of Public Speaking. As the book enters its eighth edition‚ I am deeply appreciative of the students and teachers who have made it the leading work on its subject at colleges and universities across the United States. In preparing this edition‚ I have retained what readers have identified as the main strengths of
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SPEAKING QUESTIONS Where are you living? - Is it a house or an apartment? - Do you have a favorite room in the house? - What does make your house pleasant? - Is drawing important for an adult? - Do you find it difficult to draw? Cue Card Talk about a job that you would like to have. You should say - What is it? - What skills are needed for it? - Why did you choose it? Discussion - What can you say about those who change their profession? - What do you think are the disadvantages/advantages of changing
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betterenglish LEARNING BETTER SPEAKING A GUIDE TO IMPROVING YOUR SPOKEN ENGLISH Welcome Welcome to Better Speaking. This booklet is designed to help you overcome some of the most common problems which people face when they are learning to speak English. Using extracts from the BBC World Service radio series‚ Better Speaking‚ we look at how you can become a more fluent speaker of English‚ and at some of the skills you need for effective communication.The topics we look at include…
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Introduction The teaching of English as a foreign language is now one of the most important subjects in most European primary schools. The implementation of English has brought along the need to establish clear objectives that are different to the ones traditionally assigned to secondary schools. While in secondary schools we still find‚ in many cases‚ a teaching based in the formal aspects of the language‚ i.e. grammar; primary school teachers have had to adopt a different approach as the age of
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COPING WITH PUBLIC SPEAKING ANXIETY Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the teaching of affective strategies helps students’ reduce their public speaking anxiety. We used the questionnaire Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety (PRPSA) developed by McCroskey (1970; 1992) in order to determine the level of anxiety that a student experiences while holding a speech. At the beginning of the semester‚ the students were asked to fill out the questionnaire by approximating
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I was just thinking the other day: Everyone I know in the country is weird. At least for my town‚ which has no stoplights and one main intersection‚ we are a little strange‚ I think. We don’t get out much. We think running across the freeway is a thrill. I grew up playing in mud with frogs and snakes. Is that weird? I feel like my friends and I have had a somewhat difficult time in mixing with others. I almost feel like if I had lived in the city‚ I might understand more about other types of people
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School of Public Relations‚ and School of Professional English Communications. So‚ all of the majors have related in work world and one of them is Professional English Communication or PEC. PEC has different teaching methods than others all the subjects of PEC are in English. PEC is one of the most interested major in Prisma Profesional because it w produces graduate of Prisma Profesional with English skills which are including writing and speaking fluently. As a result‚ all PEC’s subjects concerning
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Fluency and Coherence Ability to produce long responses How easily the candidate can produce the long responses The amount of hesitation The speed of speech Use of discourse markers/ linking phrases/ connectives The amount of self-correction Be able and willing to produce long responses to most questions. Produce a range of different linking words/ phrases. Linking phrases are sometimes used incorrectly. Use some ―marker‖ language (eg‚ redundant language). There
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A.J. Claudio V. Devincenzi English 10 May 6‚ 2010 Public Speaking Statement: Public speaking can be challenging when people are struggling to get their speech together. When on-stage speaking in front of a group of people may not seem so bad‚ unless you are unprepared to speak then it may become extremely nerve racking. Delivering a speech is easier for some than for others; however‚ it may be difficult for anyone who is ill prepared. Some ways you can be unprepared is by not spending
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System‚ Vol. 17‚ No. 3‚ pp. 377-384‚1989 Printed in Great Britain 0346-251X/89 $3.00 + 0.00 0 1990 Pergamon Press plc IMPROVING SPEAKING FLUENCY PAUL NATION English Language Institute‚ Victoria University of Wellington‚ New Zealand This paper examines the improvement of learners of English during the performance of a speaking activity which involves repeating the same unrehearsed talk. Improvements in fluency‚ grammatical accuracy‚ and control of the content showed that during the short
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