SPCOM223 Major Assignment #1

Instructions

Different ways in which speakers experience and use language should be viewed as resources to be used in meaning making. By reflecting on their own use and experience of language, culture, understanding of themselves and their world.

For this assignment, you will design, rehearse, and deliver a three-minute speech in which you inform your audience about your own experience with language, culture, identity, and/or meaning making. You might talk, for instance, about what subjects raised in the readings and viewings meant to you as you reflected on them, how you experienced language in your home, school, sports team, or other setting, or language’s influence on your sense of identity. Must demonstrate mastery of speech competencies that we have discussed in class (see rubric on Learn). Speak about yourself but you must also make the content meaningful - new, useful, relevant, interesting - to your audience.

Watch some Fran Lebowitz to get inspired in what to say?

Structure 1

1. Introduction, attention getter, orientation/motivation and (possibly) preview
2. Description of my language, personal/vernacular style, culture or identity in relation to communicatve norms.
   1. Section must contain rich, specific examples.
3. Analysis of personal examples in relation to course ideas using several references to class readings and/or viewing.
4. Conclusion containing take-away message and emphatic closing.

Structure 2

1. Introduction, attention getter, orientation/motivation and (possibly) preview
2. Description of my language, personal/vernacular style, culture or identity in relation to communicatve norms with references to course reading and viewings integrated throughout.
   1. Speaker could base discussion around specific incidents or examples or around claims, each supported by discussion and evidence.
   2. Speech must contain several rich, specific examples.
3. Conlusion containing take-away message and emphatic closing.

Brainstorm

• Talk about what languages I speak
  • I speak chinese with my parents at home
  • Speak french at school and with my friends until