Lesson Using Principles of

2 Effective Speech Delivery

Have you ever experienced or imagined yourself speaking before a huge

crowd? Have you not dreamt of becoming an effective speaker where your listeners
are mindful and persuaded of what you say?

Certainly, there is no shortcut recipe for being a good speaker. Indeed, nothing
is automatic; you must make it happen. This module has lesson that will serve you
that purpose i.e. to become a good speaker. Luckily, there are some tools and
principles that can be helpful to you in presenting and delivering your speech like a
pro. Discover yourself as a great speaker and be ready to see its wonders as you see
it come to pass.

What’s In

It is important that you master the previous lesson on the use of principles
for effective speech because you will find them applicable in achieving the target
competency in this module. You have learned that an effective written speech
constitutes various principles such as audience profile, logical organization,
duration, word choice, and grammatical correctness. In any event, when you realize
your messages are solid and clearly explained on paper, it is hard to know without a
doubt that your oral delivery will likewise be acceptable.

Notes to the Teacher

You may give various exercises to your learners in trying to deliver
their crafted speech. Try to involve the class in assessing the
performances of their classmates using the set of criteria for
effective speech.

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 What is It

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.

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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 non-
verbal 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

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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

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