Abstract
It is only recently that the issue at hand has received the attention it deserves. Many colleges across the country are requiring that all undergraduates take a public speaking course. In the past, textbooks and teachers of public speaking have focused primarily on developing public speaking skills in their classrooms. This study examined public speaking as an outcome of not only public speaking skills but also intrapersonal and interpersonal skill development. The research focused on identifying the speech preparation variables that students use and correlated them to perceived speaker improvement. One hundred and eighteen students completed the questionnaire, which was designed to investigate students' speaking improvement and speech preparation. Evidence gathered in this research reveals conclusive support for the premise that interpersonal skills play an active role in speaker improvement. As theorized, interpersonal skills positively correlated with speaker improvement. Talking with the instructor, talking with classmates and talking with nonclassmates, group discussions and exercises, and receiving written feedback from peers were all interpersonal variables that resulted in perceived speaker improvement. All three levels of human communication interpersonal, intrapersonal and public speaking are interrelated and need to be addressed in public speaking courses for effective student performance.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
30
Issue
2
First Page
82
Last Page
95
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Harvey, Vickie
(1998)
"Speaking Improvement and Speech Preparation: Clarifying the Relationships Among Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Public Speaking,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 30:
No.
2, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol30/iss2/8
Copyright
©1998 Iowa Communication Association
