Research & Resources for
Public Speaking Education
BACKGROUND
"Inventing Public Speaking: Rhetoric and the Speech Book, 1730-1930" Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 2012
"Creating a History for Public Speaking Instruction" Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 2014
Teaching & Learning
"Teaching Students How to Prepare and Deliver High-Stakes Presentations in Professional Settings" Faculty Focus, 2021
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"[...] Overlooked Pedagogical Opportunities in the Public Speaking Classroom" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2021
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"Regulatory Fit Explains Students’ Emotional Responses to Graded Speech Assignments" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2021
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"The Impact of Class Size on the Speech/Time Ratio in the Public Speaking Course" Basic Com Course Annual, 2018
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"Informative Speech Assignment: 'Let's Visit...'" CUNY Academic Works, 2016
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"Examining the Role of Collaborative Learning in a Public Speaking Course" College Teaching, 2014
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"Using Hip-Hop Music & Music Videos to Teach Aristotle’s Three Proofs" Comm Teacher, 2014
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"Culturally Relevant Pedagogy & Experiential Learning in a Public Speaking Classroom" J Experiential Ed, 2013
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"Student Perspectives of Peer Assessment for Learning in a Public Speaking Course" Asian EFL Journal, 2009
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"Deliberating About and Beyond the Basic Public Speaking Course" Texas Speech Communication Journal, 2005
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"Interlocutor Informative Speech" Comm Teacher, 2005
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"Using Collaborative Techniques in a Speech Class" Writing Across Curriculum, 1989
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Sample Public Speaking Syllabi (from NCA)
Textbook Selection
"Diversity and Power in Public Speaking Textbooks" Communication Quarterly, 2005
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"Gender Sensitivity and Diversity Issues in Selected Basic Public Speaking Texts" Women & Language, 1999
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"A Comparison of Readability Levels of Textbooks in Public Speaking and Interpersonal Communication" Comm Ed, 1992
Teaching Online
"Teaching in the Age of Zoom - Ideas You Can Use Now" Persuasive speaking unit video tutorial from Macmillan, 2020
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"Online versus Face-to-Face Public Speaking Outcomes: A Comprehensive Assessment" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2019
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"Teaching Public Speaking Online—Not a Problem but an Opportunity!" J of Comm Pedagogy, 2019
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"Framing the Foundations of Video Based Presentation and Meeting Channels" Comm Center J, 2019
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"Incorporating Oral Presentations into a Fully Online Course" recorded Can-Innovate webinar, 2018
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"Assessing [..]Student Development [...]Students in an Online Basic Public Speaking Course" Basic Com Course Annual, 2018
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"It’s Not the Same Thing: Considering a Path Forward for Teaching Public Speaking Online" Review of Comm, 2016
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"Online Presentations and the Future of Public Speaking" Macmillan Learning [blog], 2016
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"Assessing [...[ Competency in an Online & Face-to-Face Basic Public Speaking Course" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2016
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"Anxiety & Competence in the Online Basic Public Speaking Course" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2015
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"Teaching Public Speaking Online" Creating Communication [blog], 2014
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"Public Speaking Anxiety: Comparing Face-to-Face & Web-Based Speeches" J of Instructional Pedagogy, 2013
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"Instructional Identity: The Journey To The Online Public Speaking Course" LA Comm J, 2010
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"Student Evaluations for the Online Public Speaking Course" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2010
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"Teaching and Learning Public Speaking Online" J of Online Teaching & Learning, 2010
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"Streaming Student Speeches on the 'net: Convenient & 'Connected' Feedback..." Basic Comm Course Annual, 2003
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"A Comparison of Traditional & Online Formats in a Public Speaking Course" Comm Ed, 2001
Grading & Assessment
NCA's "The Competent Speaker Speech Evaluation Form"
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"Assessment ‘ResponsAbilities’ in the Basic Course: Evaluating Public Speaking Rubrics" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2024
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"A Longitudinal Analysis of Student Learning Gains in Oral Competency" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2021
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"Measuring Essential Learning Outcomes for Public Speaking" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2020
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"Assessment of Student Learning Gains in Oral Competency" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2016
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"The Development & Test of the Public Speaking Competence Rubric" Comm Ed, 2012
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"Components of Students’ Grade Expectations for Public Speaking Assignments" Comm Ed, 2012
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"Speaking, listening, & Assessment in the Contexts of Communication Instruction" Intn'l J of Listening, 2006
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"Student Feedback Sensitivity & Efficacy of Feedback Interventions in Public Speaking [...] Improvement" Comm Ed, 2004
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"The Development of a Specialized Public Speaking Competency Scale: Test of Reliability" Comm Research Reports, 2002
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Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Justice
"Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Promoting Inclusivity in the Basic Course" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2023
"The Importance of Antiracism in Speaking Center Pedagogic Materials" Comm Center J, 2021
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"Transforming Communication Centers from IDEA Places to IDEAL Spaces" Comm Center J, 2021
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"Comm Centers & Their Role in Student Empowerment: The Necessity of Antiracism [...]" Comm Center J, 2020.
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"An Inquiry into Black Linguistic Justice, Anti-Racism, and Assimilation" Comm Center J, 2020
"Public Speaking Skills in Educational Space: Russian Traditions & Americanized Approach" Revista Amazonia Investiga, 2019
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"Refiguring Peer-to-Peer Feedback through Feminist Disability Pedagogy" The Southern Discourse, 2019
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"#RhetoricSoEnglishOnly: Decolonizing Rhetorical Studies through Multilingualism" Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2019
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"Decolonizing Listening: Towards an Equitable Approach to Speech Training for the Actor" Voice & Speech Review, 2019
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"Decolonizing Projects: Creating Pluriversal Possibilities in Rhetoric" Rhetoric Review, 2019
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"Workplace Diversity" Comm Center J, 2019
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"Developing Public Speaking Materials Based on Communicative Language Teaching" ELT in Asia in the Digital Era, 2018
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"Incorporating Cultural Relativism within Communication Centers" Comm Center J, 2018
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"How to [...] Accommodate Transgender & Gender Non-Conforming Students..." Comm Center J, 2017
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"Public Speaking as Cultural Ideal: Internationalizing the Public Speaking Curriculum" J Intn'l & Intercultural Comm, 2015
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"Cultural Differences & Public Speaking Traditions in Different Countries" European & National Dimensions in Research, 2015
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​"Localization of the English Public Speaking Course in China’s EFL Curriculum" Asian Social Science, 2013
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"Race and Resistance in the Communication Classroom" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2008
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"Diversity and Power in Public Speaking Textbooks" Comm Quarterly, 2005
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"Recommendations for Negotiation of Code-Switching Practices among Black English-Speaking Students" J Negro Ed, 2004
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"An exploration of Kenyan Public Speaking [...] with Implications for Intro Public Speaking" Comm Ed, 2002
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"Antiracist Pedagogy in the Basic Course" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2001
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​"Gender Sensitivity & Diversity Issues in Selected Basic Public Speaking Texts" Women & Language, 1999
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"The Culture of Speeches: Public Speaking Across Cultures" Culture Mandala, 1997
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"Using Ebonics & Bilingual Code Switching to Facilitate... Multicultural Public Speaking" NCA proceedings, 1997
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"The Speech of Diversity: A Tool to Integrate Cultural Diversity Into the Basic Course" Basic Comm Course Annual, 1996
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"Rethinking the Public Speaking Course for Students of Color" J Negro Ed, 1993
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"Revisioning the Public Speaking Course" Women's Studies in Communication, 1992
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"Communication Curricula in the Multicultural University" Comm Ed, 1991
"Public Speaking Instruction and Cultural Bias: The Future of the Basic Course" American Behavioral Scientist, 1990
Access & Accommodation
"Accessibility in the Basic Course: A Case for Retaining Pandemic Technology" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2022
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"Self-Advocacy in Communication Centers" Comm Center J, 2021
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"Utilizing Speech Language Pathology Praxis [...] in Supporting Students with Comms Disorders" Comm Center J, 2021
"Teaching Self-Advocacy Skills at the Communication Center to Students with Disabilities" Comm Center J, 2021
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"[...]Peer Perceptions toward Students on the Autism Spectrum in Basic Course Classrooms" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2021
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​"Harsh Adjustments: Speech Hygiene for Disabled Competitors in Individual Events" Argumentation & Advocacy, 2020
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"Enhancing Conversations with English Language Learners in Communication Centers" Comm Center J, 2020
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"The Americans with Disabilities Act & University Communication Centers" Comm Center J, 2020
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"People with Disabilities in Oral Communication Centers" Education, 2020
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"Accommodating Students with Autism [...]: The Development of Video Modeling Techniques" Comm Center J, 2017
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"Unleashing Disability Perspectives in the Public Speaking Course" Pedagogy, Disability, & Comm, 2017
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"Assessing Effects of a Public Speaking Course on Native & Non-Native English Speakers" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2016
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"Connecting to Veterans in Public Speaking Courses" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2015
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"(Re)Constructing ELL & Intn'l Student Identities in the Oral Communication Course" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2010
Speech Anxiety
NCA Resources on Communication Apprehension
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"Anxious Speakers in Class?" MacMillan Webinar
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"How to Help Students Overcome Public Speaking Anxiety" Inside Higher Ed, 2022
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"Impact of [...] Public Speaking Anxiety on Loneliness, Belongingness, & Flourishing" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2023
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"Use of Video Blogs in Alleviating Public Speaking Anxiety among ESL Learners" J Ed & e-Learning Research, 2020
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"Yoga & Public Speaking Anxiety: Bringing the Mind-Body Connection to the Center" Comm Center J, 2020
"Anxiety & Communication Competence in the Honors Basic Public Speaking Course" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2019
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"A Study into Situational Apprehension and Performance" Comm Ed, 2019
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"Assoc. with Apprehension, Self-Perceived Competence, & Beliefs about Public Speaking" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2019
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"Music as an Effective Anxiolytic Intervention in Communication Centers" Comm Center J, 2016
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"Comparisons of Speech Anxiety[...]: Are Intensive or Traditional Semester Courses Better?" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2015
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"Art as a Means of Exploring Public Speaking Anxiety" Comm Center J, 2015
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"Current Status of Knowledge on Public-Speaking Anxiety" Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2012
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"An Internet-Based Self-Help Treatment for Fear of Public Speaking" Cyberpsychology, 2010
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"Public Speaking Attitudes: Does Curriculum Make a Difference?" J of Voice, 2008
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"Public Speaking Anxiety as a Function of Sensitization & Habituation Processes" Comm Ed, 2004
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"Perceptions of Comm Competence, Self-Efficacy, & Trait Comm Apprehension" Comm Research Reports, 2002
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"Public Speaking Anxiety: Perceived Competence & Audience Congeniality" Comm Ed, 1998
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"Communication Apprehension & the Basic Public Speaking Course" Comm Ed, 1997
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"Behavioral Inhibition & the Attribution of Public Speaking State Anxiety" Comm Ed, 1997
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"Impact of Basic Courses in Oral Interpretation & Public Speaking on Communication Apprehension" Comm Reports, 1993
"Teaching Digital Comm to Match Student Skills with Employer Desires" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2021
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"What’s in a Name? Exploring the Definitions of 'Public' & 'Speaking'" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2020
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"Framing the Foundations of Video Based Presentation & Meeting Channels" Comm Centers Journal, 2019
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"Embracing Social Media in the Basic Communication Course" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2017
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"Video Technology Use of Improving Public Speaking Competency" Basic Comm Course Annual, 2016
Digital Communication
"'The New Oratory': Public Speaking Practice in the Digital, Neoliberal Age" Discourse Studies, 2020
"Reimagining an Oral Presentation Assignment as a TED Talk Improves Student Oral Presentations"J Chemical Ed, 2020
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"Incorporating TED Talk Assignments into a Public-Speaking Course" Comm Teacher, 2017
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"TED Talks as an Emergent Genre" CLCWeb, 2017
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"A Pharmacy Elective Course on Creative Thinking, Innovation, & TED Talks" American J Pharmaceutical Ed, 2016
