Public Speaking Anxiety In Podcast Aided Language Classes
This paper presents a study on learners’ level of anxiety when a podcast was used in developing their public speaking skills. This study employs a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design where the control group was taught using the traditional method whilst a podcast...
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| author | Mat Daud, Nuraihan Ibrahim, Ainol Marziah |
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| description | This paper presents a study on learners’ level of anxiety when a podcast was used in developing their public speaking skills. This study employs a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design where the control group was taught using the traditional method whilst a podcast was used as a teaching aid on the treatment group. The podcast makes it possible for the learners to have an authentic audience for their speaking activities. The knowledge that anyone may be listening to their speeches may make students more nervous when speaking. On the other hand, the fact that the speakers can remain anonymous may also help to reduce their level of anxiety. This study was thus conducted to see what would be the effect of using this facility on the learners. Richmond and McCroskey’s (1998) Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety was the instrument used to measure the language learners’ level of anxiety. The study found that there was no significant difference between the control and the treatment groups. A reduction in the level of anxiety was observed in all groups. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:39802017-12-04T03:13:03Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/3980/ Public Speaking Anxiety In Podcast Aided Language Classes Mat Daud, Nuraihan Ibrahim, Ainol Marziah LB Theory and practice of education PE English This paper presents a study on learners’ level of anxiety when a podcast was used in developing their public speaking skills. This study employs a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design where the control group was taught using the traditional method whilst a podcast was used as a teaching aid on the treatment group. The podcast makes it possible for the learners to have an authentic audience for their speaking activities. The knowledge that anyone may be listening to their speeches may make students more nervous when speaking. On the other hand, the fact that the speakers can remain anonymous may also help to reduce their level of anxiety. This study was thus conducted to see what would be the effect of using this facility on the learners. Richmond and McCroskey’s (1998) Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety was the instrument used to measure the language learners’ level of anxiety. The study found that there was no significant difference between the control and the treatment groups. A reduction in the level of anxiety was observed in all groups. 2010-12-02 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/3980/1/Paper_PUBLIC_SPEAKING_ANXIETY_IN_PODCAST_AIDED_LANGUAGE_CLASSES_II.pdf Mat Daud, Nuraihan and Ibrahim, Ainol Marziah (2010) Public Speaking Anxiety In Podcast Aided Language Classes. In: GloCALL 2010: Go Global Go Local, 2-3rd December 2010, Kota Kinabalu Sabah. (Unpublished) |
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