Purposeful Pauses to Make Speech More Powerful

Learning to understand and use pauses effectively is a skill that can benefit all speakers. This session presents a teaching strategy and activities to help English learners identify, imitate, and then create speeches or presentations using pausing strategies. Using pauses as an organizational technique can help students plan classroom speeches as well as prepare for more formal presentations such as rigorous speech competitions. Praat, a free computer software package for speech analysis in phonetics, can be used to find pauses, confirm how the example passages are broken into various parts, and create a visual representation of how pauses play an important role in language organization. By incorporating the IIC method (identification, imitation, and creation) with a focus on pauses or other suprasegmentals, students can greatly improve both their comprehensibility and intelligibility during daily oral communication or even during speech competitions.

Presenter: Joseph Emmanuel Schwaller III
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics -- Zhejiang Campus

Hosted by CATESOL TOP-IG Coordinators
Marsha Chan
Randy Rightmire
Patryk Mrozek

Resources for English language teachers: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aj_JNl9SNO_1gQpe4L3dhQQEhx1B?e=pRuKkn

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