Innovative instructional strategies for speech communication

Abstract

The new instructional strategies being widely adopted at all levels of education depend for their rationale upon some long‐standing, well‐substantiated principles of learning. These four principles are explained and then discovered in the three most accepted instructional innovations in speech communication: mini‐courses, games and simulations and out‐of‐class learning experiences. The article also discusses pitfalls in each new method. The three methods are not calculated to lighten teachers’ work, but do provide alternative instructional techniques.