PUBLIC SPEAKING PRACTICE AND TEACHING

The authors draw attention to the fact that the sphere of public speaking is becoming increasingly important in the speech practice of society. A media personality with a high communicative status comes to the fore. At the same time, when teaching Russian in secondary and higher education, the focus is still on learning primarily written speech. A high school graduate has weak ligaments, slurred articulation, inability to use resonators, decrease or increase the tempo in accordance with a specific communicative situation. There are no skills in using non-verbal communication components in oral public communication including gesture, facial expression, look, etc. Active mastering of intonation is especially difficult. The ability to correctly and successfully enter into a verbal dialogue is interconnected with the ability to listen. Listening should be considered as “reading” an oral text in all its polycode diversity. A specialist working in the media communication environment should be able to hear and listen, look and see. Also, a brief excursion into the history of teaching public speaking is offered. The authors come to the conclusion about the need to use the experience accumulated in the field of teaching stage speech in general oral speech courses. The paper describes the techniques of listening (“reading”) and pronouncing a media text based on words that form an elaborate semiotic complex in combination with non-verbal signs.