Speech Analysis Report
The Linguistic Genious of Babies
The speech I choose to write my speech analysis report is “The Linguistic Genious of Babies”. The speaker is Patricia Kuhl who is internationally recognized for her research on early language and brain development. In her fascinating talk, Patricia Kuhl shares surprising findings about how babies learn one language over another. She logically divides the topic into three major parts as introduction, body and conclusion. I will analyze the speech with respect to these three main parts. Moreover, during my analysis I will focus on how kuhl used the strategies of presenting. Although Kuhl did not do a little greeting and introducing herself to her audience (may be it is because she is a well known scientist) she opened her speech in a clear tone and she gave some background information about the topic. She started her speech with a picture of charming baby which she used as an attention grabber. Hereby, she engaged her audience’s interest, furthermore, she evoke their sympathy. More importantly, she did not deviate from the content along with this attention getting technique. She managed to relate the picture to the topic of the presentation quiete well. I can easily say that her introduction captured the audience’s attention. In the body part of her presentation, she achieved a warm reception.during her speech, she expressed her ideas in a clear and comprehensible language. She supported her ideas and findings by using some statistics from some researches. Although these statistics make the presentation more credible and more persuasive. It was hard for me to keep in mind all these numbers. I think, this made a little confuse for audience. However, her statistics about the topic was appropriate as a supporting technique. She succesfully combined statistics with the topic. Another point of my analysis is delivery. Her physical delivery was quiete successful, she used appropriate and effective gestures. She also mentioned her good
The speech I choose to write my speech analysis report is “The Linguistic Genious of Babies”. The speaker is Patricia Kuhl who is internationally recognized for her research on early language and brain development. In her fascinating talk, Patricia Kuhl shares surprising findings about how babies learn one language over another. She logically divides the topic into three major parts as introduction, body and conclusion. I will analyze the speech with respect to these three main parts. Moreover, during my analysis I will focus on how kuhl used the strategies of presenting. Although Kuhl did not do a little greeting and introducing herself to her audience (may be it is because she is a well known scientist) she opened her speech in a clear tone and she gave some background information about the topic. She started her speech with a picture of charming baby which she used as an attention grabber. Hereby, she engaged her audience’s interest, furthermore, she evoke their sympathy. More importantly, she did not deviate from the content along with this attention getting technique. She managed to relate the picture to the topic of the presentation quiete well. I can easily say that her introduction captured the audience’s attention. In the body part of her presentation, she achieved a warm reception.during her speech, she expressed her ideas in a clear and comprehensible language. She supported her ideas and findings by using some statistics from some researches. Although these statistics make the presentation more credible and more persuasive. It was hard for me to keep in mind all these numbers. I think, this made a little confuse for audience. However, her statistics about the topic was appropriate as a supporting technique. She succesfully combined statistics with the topic. Another point of my analysis is delivery. Her physical delivery was quiete successful, she used appropriate and effective gestures. She also mentioned her good