Case Studies On Speaking Anxiety

The thought of speaking in front of an audience causes fear and anxiety in some people and prevents them in expressing their thoughts. Ability to effectively speak to people is an essential skill to be successful in the workplace. Not only the workplace but expressing thoughts, opinion, and ideas are part of everyday life. Good speaking skills are required to simply convey information. In an organization, managers, supervisors, team leaders, and employees that are required to make a speech need to have skills of good public speaking. Public speaking involves a lot more than just standing in front of an audience and talking. How thoughts and message are delivered depends on a number of factors, such as speaker’s comfort level, the nature of the information and most important, audience’s expectations. In a workplace, speeches can include impromptu speeches, informal discussion during meetings, presenting project report, selling of a product, and promoting an idea or future plan (Baccarani, & Bonfanti,2015). With the utilization of proper speaking methods, education, training, and

The use of translation in the classroom as a teaching method is a valid method to teach english as a foreign language. Over the years, translation as a teaching method has being avoided as a technique to use at the classroom. With the development of different approaches and methods such as communicative approach or the audiolingual method, which looks for the students to learn with the least possible use of speakers’ native language. According to Richards (2006) to learn how to communicate language people need competence which includes different real-life situations; grammar does not fulfil these roles and as far of the learning, in other words, learning by only speaking and practicing the target language other abilities would eventually be

Many kids in school are wanting to learn a new language away from their native language but many students are wondering what language is going to help them the most in the future. English is the clear answer for these students that are wondering what new language to learn for a number of reasons. Through different articles through the book “Language: A Reader for Writers” it discusses how language is the most successful and most useful language to speak. College students who want to learn a second language, that have not learned English, should learn English because it is the most widely used language in the world and it is the most useful language to learn.

Schools in the United States of America (USA) are facing many challenges, because of the increasing numbers of the English Language Learner (ELL) students. School administrators are trying hard to provide an equal opportunity education to their students. Furthermore, educators are looking forward in providing several methods and technique to help their students to succeed in their academic learning skills. There are many factors that need to focus on and it can be the fundamental when trying to build powerful resolutions, such as parents and community resources, social influences, native language, etc.

Thus, it is essential for students to understand the language they are exposed to and respond appropriately so that they can become competent users of that particular language. Seferoglu and Uzakgöre (2004) cited in Tavil (2010) indicate that listening is an interactive process. The listener does not always just listen to, but he or she also reacts to the speaker or asks questions for clarification. The most essential issue for the students should be to understand what they are listening to and be able to give appropriate responses orally. This aim clarifies the integration of

My anxiety over speaking in public is nowhere as dire as it was 2 years ago. Due to the classes I took in high school, I have had much more practice in public speaking then most college students. I have participated in debates, recorded speeches, and much more. However, I still have apprehension over speaking. My symptoms of speaking apprehension include, shaking in my hands and legs, and rapid breathing and talking. In the future I plan on adapting certain techniques to help manage my trepidation and rapid speaking.

In is article, the authors researched that a fundamental speech course can decrease a student’s public speaking anxiety. Reducing student’s public speaking anxiety is appropriate in a college speech class because it will improve personal development and help with the student’s employment chances later. By implementing public speaking anxiety treatments into speech courses such as positive reinforcement and constructive criticism from other classmates can reduce anxiety. Also, by starting out with simple speeches and progressing into more difficult ones anxiety can be decreased. In using this simple treatments public speaking anxiety can be greatly reduced resulting in ease in communication in a public

After conducting research on the internet, I have found five speech anxiety reducing techniques that I believe will work for me while preparing for and giving a speech. The five techniques I chose to reduce my speech anxiety are meditation, listening to music, having fun and not being too serious, engaging and interacting with the audience, and slowing down and using pauses in my speech. These techniques will better help me understand and control my speech anxiety. Meditation is a great way to relax your mind and body, especially the day of a speech. It ensures that you are calm, focused, and anxiety free. I will use meditation before a speech as a way to find inner peace by finding a quite, comfortable place to sit, breathing deeply, and focusing

According to a Chapman University survey on American fears, more than twenty-five percent of Americans’ biggest fear is public speaking (Ingraham, 2014). This ranked higher than heights, bugs, snakes, blood, and even dying. So what is it about speaking in public that is scary? And how can one get over this fear? It turns out that “most people tend to be anxious before doing something important in public” (Lucas, 2015, page 9). Being afraid of speaking in public is very common, and many people will never be able to completely overcome the fear of public speaking. However, there are many ways to manage and control this fear.

Due to the ESOL population rapidly increasing within the public school population, teachers will encounter children speaking a home language other than English in nearly every classroom and we, as teachers must be adequately prepared to assist them in reaching their fullest potential. “Many students today struggle to meet high academic standards, but ELLs have the added complexity of having to learn and use high-level academic English as they study challenging content in a new language (Echevarria, 2008).” English Language Learners come from diverse backgrounds and enter our classrooms speaking numerous languages. In order to become well prepared to educate these students, the following domains must be concentrated on: Culture (Cross-Cultural Communications), Language and Literacy (Applied Linguistics), Methods of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), ESOL Curriculum and Materials Development, and Assessment (ESOL Testing and Evaluation). Putting these topics at the forefront is sure to assist all English Language Learners in reaching academic success.

Getting up in front of a group any group, of any size can be intimidating for any person unaccustomed to public presentation. What are the best ways to overcome being apprehensive in a speaking assignment? There are several ways and many suggestions available in the literature, and this paper offers some of those suggestions and solutions.

For this reason, it is necessary to look for good resources and materials to support the language teaching-learning process. It necessary to notice the role that each skill plays in the language acquisition. For instance, Listening is considered as the basis of developing the other skills, it is because, through listening, learners learn vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. Then, reading, permit learners to expand their vocabulary and learn grammatical structure. After that, writing, which allows students to produce the language. Finally, speaking recognizes as one of the main skill that allows students to produce the language and use the knowledge that acquired with the other skills.

Learning of English and communication skills in high school and colleges has helped in developing positive attitude towards English and thus boost learning process. Students at all levels not only take the initiative to study the language, but also practice it often. Teachers inspire and guide learners to advance their level of proficiency in English. There are various perspectives which this goal is achieved. First, the student’s attitude is determined because it enables the assessment of the effectiveness of the method used for teaching students about the English language (The National Commission

This course is for urban as well as rural people. This course is for students, housewives, retired or working people who lack communication skills. For personal development, they need to improve their language ability. This course will cater those people who want to learn this language for social needs, migration purpose. For example, when a person goes to restaurants like Subway, CCD or KFC, he or she faces the problem at the counter as the person on the counter is speaking good English. The customer is unable to explain his requirements about the food, he wants. They hesitate and take the order according to service to save themselves from embarrassment. In this course, our target is to meet the needs of those people who do not have background of English, who do not have environment to speak in English. The people who want to learn for general requirements, social needs and status symbol. Conversational English is survival communication. For example, parents who are not good in English face problems during admission process in schools, during parent-teacher meetings and while interacting with their own children who are good at

For the purpose of this assignment I chose Feruza, an Eritrean high school graduate. She was born and raised in Eritrea and came to live in Jeddah only five years ago. She studied English in an elementary school in Eritrea and continued studying it in an Eritrean International High School. She is not happy at all with what she has learnt during those years. She explained that during her elementary school years her teachers heavily focused on writing while neglecting speaking. When she continued her learning process here in Jeddah, her high school teachers focused only on speaking but not at the level she was expecting.