principles of effective communication

This slide focusing on the prospects of communication and the principles including some of the barriers.

A general principle of speaking is modulating your voice. You can modulate your voice by changing the pitch up and down because if the pitch is consistent then your audiences opinions could be that what they are experiencing is dull and boring. And they wont take much from what you have said a good example is when a teacher asks a question they raise the pitch near the end of a sentence and this proposes a question. Eye contact can be helpful when you are in an interview and if you keep eye contact it shows that you interested in what they are saying to you and then they know that your listening or addressing them. Having enthusiasm in a subject is a great way of also engaging your audience because if you are engaged ( enthusiastic ) then the audience are more likely to listen and be engaged.

Emoticons are used usually in text messages along with smileys and these are types of informal pieces of text such as text message or little notes to friends. Then correct spelling is used with the write grammar and punctuation and these are formal pieces of text which are used in newspapers, letters, essays etc. 

Active listening is great to be able to do because if your focusing and concentrating on everything that is going on around you then your body language will show that like if your watching a presentation and your looking and observing and taking in what the speaker is saying then then you could ask questions about the presentation and then your body language when asking the question could show that your active by the way you ask it.

If you are casually speaking to someone or even formally and they have an accent then they are quite difficult to understand sometimes this is a language barrier but then background noise even if the speaker is English and has an English accent if there is a lot of noise then they may become hard to understand this is still a communication barrier because it is almost preventing you from understanding it