the systematic teaching of the skills associated with preparing and delivering an effective public speech, with the intention of improving speaking competence and thereby reducing public speaking apprehension
What is public speaking skills training ?
100
a method to reduce apprehension by gradually visualizing increasingly more frightening speaking events
What is systematic desensitization ?
100
seeing public speaking as a situation in which a speaker must impress an audience with knowledge and delivery, and seeing audience members as hypercritical judges
What is performance orientation ?
100
a speech that is delivered with only seconds or minutes of advance notice for preparation and is usually presented without referring to notes
What is impromptu speech ?
100
the contrasts in pitch, volume, rate, and quality that affect the meaning an audience gets from the sentences you speak
What is vocal expressiveness ?
200
word or phrase outlines of your speech
What is speaking notes ?
200
a speech that is prepared by creating a complete written manuscript and delivered by rote memory or by reading a written copy
What is scripted speech ?
200
movement with a specific purpose, such as emphasizing an important idea, referencing a presentation aid, or clarifying macrostructure
What is motivated movement ?
200
eye and mouth movements
What is facial expression?
200
a method to reduce apprehension by developing a mental picture of yourself giving a masterful speech
What is visualization ?
300
a method to systematically rebuild thoughts about public speaking by replacing anxiety-arousing negative self-talk with anxiety-reducing positive self-talk
What is cognitive restructuring ?
300
an informal style of presenting a speech so that your audience feels you are talking with them, not at them
What is conversational style ?
300
looking directly at the people to whom we are speaking
What is eye contact?
300
a speech that is researched and planned ahead of time, although the exact wording is not scripted and will vary from presentation to presentation
What is extemporaneous speech ?
300
ively and dynamic
What is animated ?
400
using the tongue, palate, teeth, jaw movement, and lips to shape vocalized sounds that combine to produce a word
What is articulation?
400
when speaking to large audiences, creating a sense of looking listeners in the eye even though you actually cannot
What is audience contact?
400
understandable
What is intelligible ?
400
how a message is communicated orally and visually through the use of voice and body to be conversational and animated
What is delivery?
400
seeing a speech situation as an opportunity to talk with a number of people about a topic that is important to the speaker and to them
What is communication orientation ?
500
the articulation, inflection, tone, and speech habits typical of the native speakers of a language
What is accent ?
500
the way we look to others
appearance?
500
a voice in which the pitch, volume, and rate remain constant, with no word, idea, or sentence differing significantly from any other
What is monotone ?
500
a type of communication anxiety (or nervousness); the level of fear you experience when anticipating or actually speaking to an audience