Assoc. Prof. Boyko Valchev: the Public Speaking Is Not a Public Reading

It is important to know that in the public speaking not everything said by the lecturer is remembered by the audience. Edgar Dale's Cone of Experience presents the following tendencies: people remember 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, 30% of what they see, 50% of what they see and hear and 90% of what they do themselves. It was the beginning of the academic lecture on the Public Speaking delivered by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Boyko Valchev, lecturer at the International Relations Department (in the picture below) on the occasion of his academic assignment as Associate Professor.

Assoc. Prof. Valchev was presented by Prof. Dr. Georgy Genov, lecturer and longstanding Head of the Economic Relations Department (in the picture below).

Secondly, the lecturer should adapt the speech to the audience profile, explained Assoc. Prof. Valchev. If the speaker is a politician he can`t convince the audience through a complex vocabulary because few of his voters will understand it. The university lecturer can`t speak simplistically because the use of correct scientific terminology is a criterion of his preparation and competence. The lecturer has to adapt the speech also to the understanding and valuable system of the audience. Every listener censors the information and apprises whether it meets its basic understanding and if it`s not the listener rejects the information no matter how logical and well-grounded is it, concluded Assoc. Prof.  Valchev.