COPING WITH PUBLIC SPEAKING ANXIETY Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the teaching of affective strategies helps students’ reduce their public speaking anxiety. We used the questionnaire Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety (PRPSA) developed by McCroskey (1970; 1992) in order to determine the level of anxiety that a student experiences while holding a speech. At the beginning of the semester‚ the students were asked to fill out the questionnaire by approximating
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Speaking in front of a large audience is hard for many people. It’s even harder and scarier if you have one of many types of learning disabilities. Add to that‚ trying to practice‚ memorize‚ and recite a famous speech that was spoken a century and a half ago when typical word usage was of a different style than what it is commonly used today. This can make the task of learning the speech seem impossible. Ken Burns’ documentary “The Address” (PBS 2014) takes place at the Greenwood School in Putney
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provide interesting and useful information to your audience. Some examples of informative speeches: A teacher telling students about earthquakes A student talking about her research A travelogue about the Tower of London A computer programmer speaking about new software 2. Demonstrative Speeches – This has many similarities with an informative speech. A demonstrative speech also teaches you something. The main difference lies in including a demonstration of how to do the thing you’re teaching
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gathered for this feast after Jesus’ ascension‚ they were filled with the Holy Spirit. [Also] The early church saw the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles at PENTECOST as the outpouring of divine gifts of holiness‚ love‚ healing‚ and speaking in TONGUES….Speaking in tongues is a (glossolalia) is a Christian religious phenomenon in which the believer‚ in an ecstatic state‚ speak in a foreign language or utters unintelligible sounds that are taken to contain a divine message.24 Gert Chesi informs
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Fear of My First Speech in Class When I thought of my first speech class‚ I was a bit frantic. After reading about professional public speakers stories on fear of public speaking and how they essentially overcame it‚ I told myself you can do it. The day of presenting my speech finally arrived and I volunteered to be the one to go first in class. I was more apprehensive about my accent than anything else. Would the audience understand me clearly? Would they be bored with what I have to say
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English is often the common language between two people from different countries. Speaking English fluently will allow you to communicate with people throughout the world‚ whether you are in an English-speaking country or another foreign country where English is the language you have in common with another human being. I want to tell you the advanteges of speaking English. There’s too much advantages of speaking English‚ but today I’ll tell you about preparation of studying abroad and how easily
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Planning and conducting formal presentations Planning presentations Planning presentations‚ involves more than simply jotting down a few points of what you are planning to say and show to your audience. There are at least five or six different presentation formats depending on what you want to achieve and the type of audience you’ll have. These are * Inform employees about recent departmental changes. * Motivate a sales team. * Explain why a project is running over budget.
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that they do teach nearly all necessary elements of English but they can not manage to make students speak fluently‚ either there is a problem on the teachers or on the students or on the methods. Speaking has always been a creative and complex process among the other skills for the language learners. Speaking English fluently and accurately and communicating orally in target language is always a grand task for foreign language learners since effective oral communication requires the ability to use the
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Dat Nguyen COM 111-550 06/14/13 CHAPTER 16 REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What is the difference between an informative speech and a persuasive speech? Why is speaking to persuade more challenging than speaking to inform? Informative speech is designed to convey knowledge of and understanding and persuasive speech is to either reinforce or changing people’s beliefs or actions. Persuasive speech is more challenging than informative because there are different points of view on the topic your discussing
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ESL 34: Public Speaking for Academic Purposes – Lecture 5 Summer 2013 Instructor: Bahiyyih Hardacre Cerqueira Office: Rolfe Hall 3310 Office Hours: By appointment E-mail Address: Bahiyyih@ucla.edu Course Website: https://ccle.ucla.edu/course/view/131C-ESL34-5 Class Assignments & Homework: CCLE and Turnitin.com Class Meeting Days/ Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 1-3:30pm Location: Public Affairs 1270 Course Description This is a four-unit course designed to help nonnative speakers of English communicate
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