Three Minute Speeches

Abstract

With the aim of drilling students in speech making, the authors asked pupils to make three minute speeches. Each pupil in a second year class of Matsubase Elementary School planned his or her speech using a topic from personal experience, and each made a short speech before his or her classmates. After the speech was over, it was evaluated by the speaker himself or herself and by the teacher and his or her classmates. The evaluation was made according to the items shown above. These evaluations were summarized, and analyzed from various points of view. From these evaluations much information useful in speech training was obtained.