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Confidence through focus words

Confidence through focus words

From the course: Public Speaking for Non-Native English Speakers

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Confidence through focus words

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- Remember, the first thing you'll need is a script, so make sure you follow the process in our lesson about using AI tools to script your talk easily and quickly. Now, let's move on to prominence or focus. Let me ask, when you were a student, did you ever use one of those yellow highlighters to mark important concepts in your textbook? That's what prominence or focus is. It's a way to highlight certain elements in our speech, so they stand out from others. This is by far the single most important part of delivery for non-native speakers. Now, I was walking around the university where I'm a professor and I saw a student who was highlighting in yellow everything on both sides of her textbook, right? Everything was highlighted, so by focusing on everything, she was focusing on nothing. Because everything was highlighted, nothing stood out, nothing was prominent, nothing was different. Non-native speakers also do this sometimes…

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