Anxiety in Oral Presentations among ESL Student / Nurul Amilin Razawi, Luqmanul Hakim Zulkornain and Razifa Mohd Razlan

This study examines the possible causes of anxiety in oral presentations among students who are currently taking English subjects in UiTM Dungun Campus. Communication apprehension especially in doing oral presentations is inevitable among ESL (English as A Second Language) students. This natural phe...

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Main Authors: Razawi, Nurul Amilin, Zulkornain, Luqmanul Hakim, Mohd Razlan, Razifa
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan 2019
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/30358/1/30358.pdf
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Zulkornain, Luqmanul Hakim
Mohd Razlan, Razifa
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description This study examines the possible causes of anxiety in oral presentations among students who are currently taking English subjects in UiTM Dungun Campus. Communication apprehension especially in doing oral presentations is inevitable among ESL (English as A Second Language) students. This natural phenomenon occurs due to several factors by taking diverse students’ backgrounds into account. However, there are also other factors that may contribute to the students’ anxiety. The respondents were invited to answer a set of questionnaires using Google Forms ™. The questionnaire was adapted and modified from Al-Nouh (2015). A few alterations were made to the questionnaire so as to fit the respondents’ perceptions. From the survey, several factors of anxiety in oral presentations were perceived; language ability, personality traits, preparation and audience interest. Overall, the findings showed that all these four factors did affect the students’ oral presentations. Several implications of the findings were discussed which include setting a friendly and stimulating class environment to cater to the different students’ learning needs, sharing the scoring rubrics for students’ preparation beforehand, encouraging positive attitude among the audience members and emphasizing fluency more than accuracy while using English. It is hoped that the ideas and suggestions discussed will provide the lecturers with basic guidelines of how to improve the students’ command of English language through oral presentation assessments and help the students to work their way out of anxiety.
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spelling oai:ir.uitm.edu.my:303582020-05-15T01:06:02Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/30358/ Anxiety in Oral Presentations among ESL Student / Nurul Amilin Razawi, Luqmanul Hakim Zulkornain and Razifa Mohd Razlan joa Razawi, Nurul Amilin Zulkornain, Luqmanul Hakim Mohd Razlan, Razifa Terengganu Oral communication. Speech Spoken language This study examines the possible causes of anxiety in oral presentations among students who are currently taking English subjects in UiTM Dungun Campus. Communication apprehension especially in doing oral presentations is inevitable among ESL (English as A Second Language) students. This natural phenomenon occurs due to several factors by taking diverse students’ backgrounds into account. However, there are also other factors that may contribute to the students’ anxiety. The respondents were invited to answer a set of questionnaires using Google Forms ™. The questionnaire was adapted and modified from Al-Nouh (2015). A few alterations were made to the questionnaire so as to fit the respondents’ perceptions. From the survey, several factors of anxiety in oral presentations were perceived; language ability, personality traits, preparation and audience interest. Overall, the findings showed that all these four factors did affect the students’ oral presentations. Several implications of the findings were discussed which include setting a friendly and stimulating class environment to cater to the different students’ learning needs, sharing the scoring rubrics for students’ preparation beforehand, encouraging positive attitude among the audience members and emphasizing fluency more than accuracy while using English. It is hoped that the ideas and suggestions discussed will provide the lecturers with basic guidelines of how to improve the students’ command of English language through oral presentation assessments and help the students to work their way out of anxiety. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/30358/1/30358.pdf Anxiety in Oral Presentations among ESL Student / Nurul Amilin Razawi, Luqmanul Hakim Zulkornain and Razifa Mohd Razlan. (2019) Journal of Academia <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_Academia/>, 7 (1). pp. 31-36. ISSN 2289-6368 https://nsembilan.uitm.edu.my/joacns/
spellingShingle Terengganu
Oral communication. Speech
Spoken language
Razawi, Nurul Amilin
Zulkornain, Luqmanul Hakim
Mohd Razlan, Razifa
Anxiety in Oral Presentations among ESL Student / Nurul Amilin Razawi, Luqmanul Hakim Zulkornain and Razifa Mohd Razlan
title Anxiety in Oral Presentations among ESL Student / Nurul Amilin Razawi, Luqmanul Hakim Zulkornain and Razifa Mohd Razlan
title_full Anxiety in Oral Presentations among ESL Student / Nurul Amilin Razawi, Luqmanul Hakim Zulkornain and Razifa Mohd Razlan
title_fullStr Anxiety in Oral Presentations among ESL Student / Nurul Amilin Razawi, Luqmanul Hakim Zulkornain and Razifa Mohd Razlan
title_full_unstemmed Anxiety in Oral Presentations among ESL Student / Nurul Amilin Razawi, Luqmanul Hakim Zulkornain and Razifa Mohd Razlan
title_short Anxiety in Oral Presentations among ESL Student / Nurul Amilin Razawi, Luqmanul Hakim Zulkornain and Razifa Mohd Razlan
title_sort anxiety in oral presentations among esl student nurul amilin razawi luqmanul hakim zulkornain and razifa mohd razlan
topic Terengganu
Oral communication. Speech
Spoken language
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/30358/1/30358.pdf
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