Abstract
Through this activity, students consider to what extent gestures, movement, and vocal inflection affect a speech. Using the same speech content as the rest of their group, each student is provided a prompt requiring them to adapt their speech delivery differently. Through these differences, students can better understand how to incorporate nonverbal speech delivery that is natural, balanced, communicates emotion, and effectively communicates the message of the speech. Students discover the importance of nonverbal delivery while using an entertaining speech they may have seen in a television show. Overall, students learn how planned versus natural speech delivery can alter nonverbal delivery and to what extent their delivery influences their credibility with their audience.
Recommended Citation
Bressler, Nancy
(2022)
"“Number Of Nonverbal Delivery Techniques”: Innovative Approaches to Gestures, Movement, and Vocal Delivery,"
Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD: Vol. 7, Article 3.
Available at:
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/discoursejournal/vol7/iss1/3
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