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Body language and posture can convey confidence or uncertainty and influence how audiences perceive a speaker. Good posture includes standing tall with shoulders back and making eye contact. Eye contact shows openness and honesty, encourages attention, and allows reading audience feedback. Facial expressions like smiling establish rapport and hand gestures can emphasize important points by indicating size, enthusiasm, symbolic actions, or locations. Proper body language and engagement of audiences are keys to effective speaking.

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Delivering Your Message PDF

Body language and posture can convey confidence or uncertainty and influence how audiences perceive a speaker. Good posture includes standing tall with shoulders back and making eye contact. Eye contact shows openness and honesty, encourages attention, and allows reading audience feedback. Facial expressions like smiling establish rapport and hand gestures can emphasize important points by indicating size, enthusiasm, symbolic actions, or locations. Proper body language and engagement of audiences are keys to effective speaking.

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Speech 61: PUBLIC SPEAKING

“DELIVERING YOUR MESSAGE”

William Shakespeare wrote that all speakers give two speeches at the same time: the one that is heard and the one
that is seen.
(Believe it or not, most people are frequently influenced by what they see than by what they hear.)
What is Body Language? Body Language means posture, eye contact, facial expressions, and gestures.

Your body language, as well as your speech patterns reflects how you feel about yourself. It also affects how others
react to you. It can help you convey an aura of confidence, or it can make you appear uncertain before you open your
mouth.

POSTURE TALKS “Walk of the Matador”

1. Keep your spine straight and rotate your shoulders back.


2. Keep your head erect.
3. Keep your hands at your sides with your fingers open or slightly curled.
4. Keep both feet flat on the floor and slightly apart.
5. If you are using a lectern, be careful not to bend over it or lean on it.
6. Instead, stand naturally erect and gently rest your hands on the sides of the lectern.

LOOK THEM IN THE EYE

Good Eye Contact:

a. Shows that you are open and honest.


b. Is more effective than the words you say
c. Encourages listeners to pay attention to you, to respond to you, and to respect you.
d. Indicates you have confidence in yourself and what you are saying
e. Allows you to “read” your listeners’ faces to get feedback on how they like your speech.

“Walk the Walk of the Matador”

a. Walk the walk of the matador to the front of the class.


b. Greet your audience.
c. Say your thoughts.
d. Thank your audience.

FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND GESTURES

If you smile before you speak, you give your listeners the impression that you are confident and looking
forward to speaking. A smile is a good way to establish rapport with your audience and to help put both you and
your audience at ease.

GESTURES

Important points in your speech can be emphasized by using gestures --- hand and arm movements. Here are some
examples:

Size: Show the width or height of an object by using your hands.

Enthusiasm for an idea: Punch the air with your fist to show your enthusiasm for a new policy.

Symbolic action: Wave your hand in greeting to show how you felt when you saw a long – lost friend.

Location: Point your index finger to show a specific location on a map or use your hand in a sweeping motion to
show a wider area.

Prepared by: Constantino, C.T. <January, 2020>


Source: Speech Communication Made Simple by Paulette Dale, Ph.D. and James C. Wolf, M.A.

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