This document outlines the key components of the speech communication process: the speaker, listener, message, channel, context, interference, and feedback. It examines each component, defining their role and impact. For example, the speaker delivers the message, while the context provides the background, and interference can disrupt the listener's understanding. The overall process is described as involving these critical parts, with the question of whether it follows a straight line or circular diagram.

1. The Speech Communication
Process
The Critical Components

2. The Objective
To demonstrate the process of
speech communication by
studying its critical components.

3. “Communicating is universal.”

4. The Components
 Speaker
 Listener
 Message
 Channel
 Context
 Interference
 Feedback

5. The Speaker
 The speaker is simply the
person who is delivering, or
presenting the speech.

6. The Listener
 The listener is the person
or persons who have
assembled to hear the oral
message.

7. The Message
 The message is what the
speaker is discussing or
the ideas that s/he is
presenting to you as s/he
covers a particular topic.

8. The Context
 The background of
speech communication. It
depends on the physical
location or the occasion of
the presentation.

9. The Channel
 The channel is simply the
means by which the
message is sent or
transmitted.

10. The Interference
 The obstacle that gets in
the way of the message and
interferes with the listener’s
ability to hear what’s being
said.
 It could be mental,
physical, or physiological.

11. The Feedback
 The state wherein the
audience are sending a
message of their own.
 It could be verbal or non-
verbal.

12. Question
 What the process would
look like if we used a
diagram to illustrate it? Is it
a straight line or circular?