Express their thoughts and feelings

Students can learn its role in evoking emotion, mood, and images

Learn the skills, strategies, and attitudes of effective speakers and listeners

Develop speaking skills through a variety of informal and formal experiences

Use of language arts in a listening and speaking lesson

Learning to recognize and interpret sounds other than speech

Develop aesthetic and pragmatic purposes

Students look at the effect of oral punctuation, inflection, volume, pace, stance, and gestures in expressing content, tone, and emotion Requires students to respond to, analyze, and evaluate oral texts