" I used to be really nervous to speak in public. When I spoke in front of people, my face got red and my voice trembled. The pace of my speaking got faster and faster, and my arms waved around without being controlled. Because of this, I hardly ever answered questions in my previous classes although I knew the correct answers most of the time. "
"In the first class, I was really shy, and hardly participate the conversation and discussion. Even when I participate, I pretended that I was not interested in those activities to cover my embarrasses. "
These two paragraphs are chosen in the second blog I posted. I clearly remembered how bashful I was at that time. Nevertheless, it seems that I've improved a lot during this semester.
To start with, my way of speaking become a lot better. First of all, my pacing is more under control than before. Now I can slow down the speed I talk and always pay attention to it. In our first project of monologue, I tried a lot to control my pace. It was really hard since I was facing another huge difficulty, memorization. Any little changes can interact my memorization even transitory pausing. However, pausing is needed. To deal with this, I read the short monologue as slowly as possible. That was effective. This experice reminded me that I could always read things over and over again to train the pacing of speaking. Secondly, the emotion and gesture I express are a lot more appropriate. I can change my tone gradually rather than speak out the flat article word by word. Besides, I am able to make some slightly movements to work in concert with the content. However, in the final representative of the TED talk, I hardly moved which made me upset.
Furthermore, my performances increasingly become confident. During my first taking of video, I really did not know where to look at and hardly had eye contact with audiences. I can't even control my face and can't help smiling for the whole taking. Things get a lot better now. Manipulably change my emotion and give eye contact become possible. I can smile and look at an audience's eyes directly and confidently.
Nevertheless, there are still things I have to work on. The first thing I need to build is a logical mind. Although I can write essay logically, I cannot present my mind and organize my language immediately in speaking such as debate. During the preparing of our debate, I figure out that I can only read the material I've already written down rather than say whatever comes up from my mind. The second thing is the articulation. I hope that I could speak calmly and articulately in stead of in a hurry. I think the best way would be speaking slowly and pay attention to every syllable like "d".
Lat but not least, I have really learnt a lot in this class. Although the class in now over, I will always remind myself the things I learnt in this class and apply skills in my further studying.
Furthermore, my performances increasingly become confident. During my first taking of video, I really did not know where to look at and hardly had eye contact with audiences. I can't even control my face and can't help smiling for the whole taking. Things get a lot better now. Manipulably change my emotion and give eye contact become possible. I can smile and look at an audience's eyes directly and confidently.
Nevertheless, there are still things I have to work on. The first thing I need to build is a logical mind. Although I can write essay logically, I cannot present my mind and organize my language immediately in speaking such as debate. During the preparing of our debate, I figure out that I can only read the material I've already written down rather than say whatever comes up from my mind. The second thing is the articulation. I hope that I could speak calmly and articulately in stead of in a hurry. I think the best way would be speaking slowly and pay attention to every syllable like "d".
Lat but not least, I have really learnt a lot in this class. Although the class in now over, I will always remind myself the things I learnt in this class and apply skills in my further studying.
Thank you very much Ms. Guarino, I love this class !
