Friday, November 25, 2016

Lee Donghyang / Presenting in English / Vocal Variety Speech / WED 56

4 comments:

  1. Title: What I’ve learned at my grandmother’s house
    Self-evaluation
    Date: November 26, 2016

    The topic was facilitated vocal variety. Speech about what I have experienced matches with using vocal variety. My volume of this speech is satisfactory compare to my other speech video. By learning vocal variety, I could improve my volume than before. The rate wasn't too slow, in my opinion. I used some pauses to get audience's attention. I tried to make many pauses between sentence or between paragraph when giving a speech and I am satisfied on this speech. Pauses and intonation help a lot when giving speech and I tried to use a casual and conversational tone. It's not that casual but I tried my best on tone. High and low certainly is important for audience to get my attention. The topic wasn't hard to understand. It can happen in daily life. So it is a friendly topic. I organized the speech by starting with reason, what I did and the result. I think I should improve my body language when giving the speech. However, I think I did better and got improved than before.
    • Topic Selection: _o_Facilitated vocal variety __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Volume: __Excellent _o_Satisfactory __Too loud or soft
    • Rate: __Excellent, varied _o_Satisfactory __Too fast or too slow
    • Pitch: _o_Varied conversational __Satisfactory __Monotonous, artificial
    • Quality: _o_Pleasant, friendly __Satisfactory __Harsh, monotonous
    • Pauses: _o_Appropriate, effective __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Expressiveness: __Conveyed emotion, meaning _o_Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Vocal Variety: _o_Enhanced speech __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Organization: _o_Logical flow of ideas __Satisfactory __Should Improve
    • Word Usage: _o_Vivid, descriptive, accurate __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Body Language: __Natural, expressive _o_Satisfactory __Unnatural, distracting


    • What could the speaker have done differently to make the speech more effective?

    It could have been better if I act more naturally by using hand gestures. I think it was a little awkward.

    • What did you like about the speech?

    I like the speech which was like story-telling. It’s kind of interesting about what I did and what result comes after and then what I’ve learn. What happen the ‘next day morning’ was the part that I like.

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  3. Title: What I’ve learned at my grandmother’s house
    Evaluator: Sohee Lee
    Date: November 27, 2016
    In her speech, she explained about what she learned from her experience of being stubborn and making a mistake. The topic was interesting because it was something that could happen in daily life. Her speech was also well-organized and had a logical flow. She explained what happened when she was ten years old, and explained the result of the incident.
    Her volume was loud enough for the audience to hear her voice clearly. The rate was also good. It wasn’t too slow or fast. The pitch of her voice was fair enough as well. She also made pauses between sentences while giving her speech. It got my attention and helped me focus more on her speech. Furthermore, she used vivid expressions in her speech that explained the incident. The descriptive expressions and words helped me imagine the scene and what she might have felt in the situation.
    By presenting her speech, she described the incident at her grandmother’s house and gave a message of what she learned that day. She explained that she learned that she shouldn’t be stubborn on things that she is not good at. She also learned that she should ask for help for things she doesn’t know.

    • Topic Selection: _o_Facilitated vocal variety __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Volume: _ o__Excellent _ _Satisfactory __Too loud or soft
    • Rate: o___Excellent, varied _ _Satisfactory __Too fast or too slow
    • Pitch: _o_Varied conversational __Satisfactory __Monotonous, artificial
    • Quality: _o_Pleasant, friendly __Satisfactory __Harsh, monotonous
    • Pauses: _o_Appropriate, effective __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Expressiveness: __Conveyed emotion, meaning _o_Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Vocal Variety: _o_Enhanced speech __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Organization: _o_Logical flow of ideas __Satisfactory __Should Improve
    • Word Usage: _o_Vivid, descriptive, accurate __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Body Language: __Natural, expressive _o_Satisfactory __Unnatural, distracting


    • What could the speaker have done differently to make the speech more effective?
    It would have been better if she had used more hand gestures while presenting her speech. It would make her speech more lively. She could have used them in parts where she would like to emphasize. In that way, she will be able to emphasize more effectively. However, I could see that she tried to use more body gestures than the previous presentation.

    • What did you like about the speech?
    The topic was interesting and her speech was like story telling. The descriptive words and expressions were effectively used and it helped me imagine the scene. I especially liked the part where she described the scene of a thick, black curved line of ants on the wall. I also liked the part she described that ants fell like waterfall.

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  4. Title: What I've learned at my grandmother's house
    Evaluator: Juyeon Lee
    Date: November 28, 2016

    I think we all have those experiences of being scold by older people and getting to learn something. She tells us a story of her happened when she was just a little girl and explained how the things went. And as a result, she tells us what she learned through the experience.
    Her voice volume, rate, and pitch was good and balanced. She used lots of pauses and narrated the story just like a storyteller. She used a lot of descriptive words so that we can imagine the specific scenes in our brains.

    • Topic Selection: _o_ Facilitated vocal variety __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Volume: _o_Excellent __Satisfactory __Too loud or soft
    • Rate: _o_Excellent, varied __Satisfactory __Too fast or too slow
    • Pitch: _o_Varied conversational __Satisfactory __Monotonous, artificial
    • Quality: _o_Pleasant, friendly __Satisfactory __Harsh, monotonous
    • Pauses: _o_Appropriate, effective __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Expressiveness: __Conveyed emotion, meaning _o_Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Vocal Variety: _o_Enhanced speech __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Organization: _o_Logical flow of ideas __Satisfactory __Should Improve
    • Word Usage: _o_Vivid, descriptive, accurate __Satisfactory __Could Improve
    • Body Language: __Natural, expressive _o_Satisfactory __Unnatural, distracting


    • What could the speaker have done differently to make the speech more effective?
    It would be nice if she shows us some pictures of her grandmother's house or the shelf she put the package. It will be helpful to think of the images of them. Also, I think the conclusion ended pretty quickly. If you add some other lessons that you learned from the experience, the presentation would be much better.

    • What did you like about the speech?
    I like the presentation with lots of visual aids and effects. However, on the other hand, sometimes, speech without any other materials could be powerful. I like her speech because it felt like I was reading a fairy tale. It reminded myself reading a book when I was little. She put a number of descriptions like "ants fell like waterfall" or something like that, and I liked it.

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