A study on public speaking anxiety among postgraduate students

Name: Sahidee Hayaramae

keyword: Public speaking

; Public speaking anxiety (PSA)

; Communication apprehension (CA)

; Thai postgraduate students

Abstract: The investigation about factors contributing to public speaking anxiety (PSA), the strategies reducing the level of public speaking anxiety among postgraduate students is being conducted in the current study. The study was examined to find the degree of level of student’s anxiety as well as the strategies coping with public speaking anxiety. The 30 participants of postgraduate students randomly selected using the convenience sampling method. A questionnaire was adapted from PRPSA (McCrosky, 1970) as the research instrument in order to collect the data in this study. The result showed that the factors contributing the public speaking anxiety, both psychological factors and physiological factors, were significantly various. Students get anxious if they were not well preparing the public speeches. Interestingly, it is comparatively indicated that postgraduate students could control and manage their level of anxiety while delivering the public speech. For strategies coping with anxiety, postgraduate students selected their interested topics when they are supposed to deliver public speeches. Using the rhetorical devices was also important when they deliver the public speech. Additionally, students regulate their gestures and project their voices by speaking clearly, confidently, and appropriately. The findings suggested that these can be applied to the instructional settings of public speaking course, particularly ELT program, in order to assist students from various difficulties in public speeches. Furthermore, the public speaking strategies should be practically used in the core instruction of public speaking in order to reduce the level of anxiety among postgraduate students

Thammasat University. Thammasat University Library

Address: BANGKOK

Email: preserv@tu.ac.th

Name: Nantikarn Simasangyaporn

Role: advisor

Created: 2016

Modified: 2021-07-27

Issued: 2021-07-27

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DOI: 10.14457/TU.the.2016.1347

eng

DegreeName: Master of Arts

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: English Language Teaching

Grantor: Thammasat University

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