To become an effective English communicator, one should practice speaking aloud, develop confidence through practice, maintain eye contact with listeners, use appropriate gestures depending on the audience size, speak firmly and clearly, maintain a positive tone, listen to others, develop an appropriate speaking voice, and show interest in one's listeners by focusing on them.
2. Communicating covers both writing and speaking.
However, much of it, the more utilised and the
more effective is the latter. Spoken communication
gives immediate results and is an immediate
reaction. Effective speaking skills are highly
valuable in school, work and life.
15. It makes perfect! Make your speaking skills perfectly
effective by practicing. You can do so by reading news
and dialogues aloud. You can also read speeches. When
you practice by reading aloud, also practice having guts,
making eye contact, the proper use of gestures, being
clear and firm, being positive, proper pace, appropriate
volume of voice and listening to others.
17. Develop your self-confidence. Guts is necessary in doing
anything that involves fear. In speaking, people have fear
of the stage or the spotlight. They are afraid that they will
commit mistakes and others will criticise them. With
enough practice, the next step is to have the guts to apply
what you have practice.
19. When you talk, you should make eye contact with your
audience whether they are a hundred, a dozen or only one
person you are conversing with. You know you are still in
contact with your audience when you are looking at their
eyes and see that they are also looking at you, more
especially to your eyes also.
21. Use appropriate gestures while talking to one person, a
small group or a large one. When having a conversation
with a person, you can lean a little bit forward. For a
small group, you can turn your head to the one talking.
For a large audience, you should stand properly in the
middle of the stage or behind the podium. Most formal
speeches do not call for you as the speaker to walk around
on top of the stage.
23. Be firm when standing up and making a stand in
discussions or forums. When you are firm on your
answer, you can talk in a clear voice and with a more
suitable choice of words.
25. Always aim for a positive approach and voice. Audience,
listeners or the others you are talking to does not want to
be infected with any negativity that you have as a
speaker.
27. In speaking, listening to others is important.
Communication is two-way. You may be the speaker but
the audience or others in a discussion group also has
something to say, especially with what you are talking
about. You have to listen so that you can answer their
questions or defend your point well.
29. Develop your voice so that it will be at least decent to
hear. Make the appropriate volume and speak slow
enough that listeners can catch up and fast enough that
they will not be bored or annoyed. Developing voice is
one important part of developing effective
communicators.
31. When talking to a big audience, a small group or
conversing with one person, aim to give more content and
substance about them. Your true goal is for them to listen
to you and what you truly want to discuss is about what
you want to achieve. However, to be successful in doing
this, you need to be interested in the other persons you are
talking with. Showing them that you are interested in
them will make them listen to you.