ABSTRACT
Purpose:
to describe the changes of vocal and gestural features a story crossing simulation for television after speech training journalism students.
Methods:
longitudinal study, which was attended by 23 students of the Social Communication course, of both genders, with a mean age of 22 years. A theoretical and practical training of vocal and gestural expressiveness for presentations in television journalism was given to the students. The volunteers were randomly divided into two groups - training and control groups. To evaluate the effect of training two procedures were used: general self-assessment of expressiveness and of the speech therapist assessment of the vocal aspects, body and overall expressiveness.
Results:
of the 12 participants in the training group, nine (75%) showed positive changes, especially in the general expression and in the parameters melodic curve, emphasis and pauses (75%). The parameters that were less modified were loudness (5.33%) and resonance (25%). In the control group, 70% of participants had the general expression and the specific parameters considered as similar pre and post training. After the training the participants of the training group self-rated general expression as positive (average grade 8.2) and pointed out that the training contributed to the professional training (average grade 9.8).
Conclusion:
the training "vocal expressiveness and body to speak well in telejournalism" causes changes in the expression of Journalism students. The improvement is significant to the overall expression, emphasis, melodic curve and pauses. The self-assessment showed greater change in the overall expressiveness after training in relation to the speech therapist assessment.
Keywords:
Voice; Journalism; Speech therapy, Language and Hearing Sciences; Phonation; Communication
