Oral Interpretation

Oral Interpretation

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            RVQ/ ABLL 4

Oral Interpretation is judging with the emphasis on the voice dynamics of the presenters at the same time looking at the body language or the flat performance of the speakers. It is usually used in plays, delivering of poems, and many other literary pieces, hence oral speaking can be done in different ways it can be use in speeches, manuscripts, impromptu, speech choirs and many others. First we have choral speaking; this is done by a group of people performing a certain piece on stage. There are actually four types of choral speaking arrangements these are the following:

a.      Refrain- The soloist is the one who speaks most of the lines,

b.      Line- a- child- a single child or two speak a line or a couplet,

c.       Antiphonal- it involves two or more person t speak a line,

d.       Unison- the entire group speaks the lines together.

An example for the refrain was the tape presented about Robert Louis Stevenson’s

“The Wind”. However, for a line-a-child “Weather” by Louis Abney, for antiphonal we have “The Sea” as a conversation between a mother and a child, for Unison “The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Teaching antiphonal requires careful planning for it needs questions and answers. Likewise for a verse or speech choir for it requires high quality literature for presentations.

        In the tape as well was presented several poetic devices like alliterations in which it uses repeated initials, consonance sounds, assonance- repeated vowel sounds. Another kind of oral speaking presentation is the choric. There are kinds of choric presentations. First, conventional arrangements- it suggest no extra movements. Authentic real speech choir conveys thoughts, feelings for the one’s involve in a certain piece. There should be a dramatic choreography in the presentations.

        Readers theatre is also included in which reader’s theatre is a group technique in telling a story. There is no need to a set of props on stage. Story telling can also be a good strategy in teaching a speech class just have a good snse and voice to relate the story.