Too fast? Too slow? Just right!

6 exercises to develop an effective speaking rate

Do you, or do you have students who, habitually talk too quickly? (Very common.) Or too slowly? (Much less common.)

The solution to either speaking too fast or too slowly is not a regular steady pace in the middle ground. Rather it is to vary speaking rate: to match it to meet the needs of the audience and what is being spoken about, the content.

While that’s all very well in theory, in practice it can be challenging to change how fast we talk.

How do you do that?

Here are 6 easily implemented suggestions to help develop an effective speaking rate.

Happy teaching, happy speaking,

Susan

PS. You’ll also find notes on how speech rate is interpreted by listeners.