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  2. Oral skills - Wikipedia

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    Oral skills are used to enhance the clarity of speech for effective communication. Communication is the transmission of messages and the correct interpretation of information between people. The production speech is insisted by the respiration of air from the lungs that initiates the vibrations in the vocal cords. [1]

  3. Public speaking - Wikipedia

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    In today's text, the structure has been reduced to introduction, body, and conclusion. Style is the process of choosing language and constructing your presentation to create an emotional response from the audience. Individuals can achieve this by using language and rhetoric devices like analogy, allusion and alliteration. [32] [33]

  4. Language power - Wikipedia

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    Language power (LP) is a measure of the ability to communicate effectively in a given language, specifically one that is not native to the speaker. Current instructional programs throughout the world continue to attempt to teach enrollees how to communicate in a second language – yet they struggle.

  5. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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    The six factors of an effective verbal communication. To each one corresponds a communication function (not displayed in this picture). [1] Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. [2] Each of the functions has an associated factor.

  6. Verbal intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Verbal Comprehension is a fairly complex process, and it is not fully understood. From various studies and experiments, it has been found that the superior temporal sulcus activates when hearing human speech, and that speech processing seems to occur within Wernicke's area.

  7. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Homeoteleuton – a figure of speech where adjacent or parallel words have similar endings inside a verse, a sentence. Authors often use it to evoke music or to give a rhythm to their phrase. Homiletics – the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific art of public preaching.

  8. Linguistic performance - Wikipedia

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    Part of the motivation for the distinction between performance and competence comes from speech errors: despite having a perfect understanding of the correct forms, a speaker of a language may unintentionally produce incorrect forms. This is because performance occurs in real situations, and so is subject to many non-linguistic influences.

  9. Fluency - Wikipedia

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    Varying definitions of fluency characterize it by the language user's automaticity, [8] their speed and coherency of language use, [9] or the length and rate of their speech output. [10] Theories of automaticity postulate that more fluent language users can manage all of the components of language use without paying attention to each individual ...