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Peer reviewedBytwerk, Randall L. – Communication Education, 1985
Presents six impromptu speaking exercises suitable for developing a variety of speaking skills. (PD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Public Speaking, Speech Instruction, Speech Skills
Peer reviewedHufman, Melody – Communication Education, 1985
Describes the use of a maze to teach students how to construct the speech outline. Provides an example. (PD)
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Public Speaking, Speech Communication, Speech Instruction
Peer reviewedBoileau, Don M. – Communication Education, 1985
Reviews 15 documents in the ERIC system on the basic course in speech communication covering philosophy, research, teaching approaches, and challenges. (PD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Speech Communication, Speech Instruction
Peer reviewedThompson, Mary Langer – English Journal, 1982
Points out the importance of speech activities in the English curriculum. (JL)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Secondary Education, Speech Instruction, Speech Skills
Peer reviewedSeeger, Matthew W. – Communication Education, 1985
Traces the movement away from the classical model of speechwriting and proposes a new rationale for viewing ghostwritten speeches as organizational products. Notes the implications for speech pedagogy. (PD)
Descriptors: Leadership, Models, Organizational Communication, Rhetoric
Dornbusch, Joan F. – ABCA Bulletin, 1980
Points out that preparing a manuscript for oral presentation often requires modifying, simplifying, amplifying, clarifying, and intensifying the original writing. Also notes that a speaker can make reading the paper more interesting by knowing the paper very well and striving for eye contact with the audience. (TJ)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Oral Reading, Public Speaking, Speech Instruction
Peer reviewedGruner, Charles R. – Communication Education, 1985
Presents six generalizations on using humor in public speaking. (PD)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Humor, Literature Reviews, Public Speaking
Peer reviewedLogue, Cal M. – Communication Education, 1982
An exercise that teaches students how to develop a speech by using an outline form that synthesizes library research and personal observation. (PD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Public Speaking, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedFry, Todd – Communication Education, 1986
Argues that secondary communication courses are a likely and promising forum for peace education. Offers ideas for content development. (PD)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Peace, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedJones, John Alfred – Communication Education, 1981
Describes an exercise to help students prepare for emergencies that arise in public speaking situations. (PD)
Descriptors: Expectation, Higher Education, Public Speaking, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHansen, Sally P. – Communication Education, 1982
Describes a speech assignment in which students describe a geometric figure well enough so that listeners can then draw the figure. Exercise is based on philosophy of teaching and learning in W. Timothy Gallwey's "The Inner Game of Tennis." (PD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Public Speaking
Streff, Craig R. – Journal of the Wisconsin Communication Association, 1983
Weaver Award winning speech communication instructor Craig Streff believes the most important goals of his interpersonal communication instruction are a strong cognitive and affective base, without which practical interpersonal skills are not likely to be developed. Given this overview, what he considers to be the most significant points of the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Educational Philosophy, Interpersonal Communication, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHolloway, Hal – Communication Education, 1984
Describes an exercise in which students report on rhetorical choices they make when preparing speeches, based on analyzing their public speaking class as an audience. (PD)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Public Speaking
Peer reviewedSobel, Ruth – Russian Language Journal, 1981
Describes methods for teaching students to converse in a second language, focusing on games and themes. (BK)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Educational Games, Second Language Instruction, Speech Instruction
Peer reviewedSosne, Jeffrey B.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1979
The paper presents a program for increasing spontaneous functional speech to autistic like children. The program, applicable to individual and group settings, emphasizes the use of language skills beyond the classroom. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Autism, Guidelines, Language Acquisition, Program Descriptions
