Objectives describe students' public speaking abilities and barriers, as well their solutions. This study used a qualitative descriptive approach, data collection techniques using interviews, observations, documentation. It was conducted in one of the private elementary schools Malang City, class VI. The results assessment skills school children are still low. test showed that 61.3% students di...

The ability to present effectively is essential for professionals; therefore oral communication courses have become part of the curricula for higher education studies. However, speaking in public is still a challenge for many graduates. To tackle this problem, driven by the recent advances in computer vision techniques and prosody analysis, multimodal tools have been designed to support the dev...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide data on key public health indicators for the state’s Hispanic Spanish-speaking population, and to compare these results with those for English-speaking Hispanics and nonHispanic African Americans and whites. Comparison with other demographic groups provides the context for evaluating the health risks and health care needs of the Spanish-speaking ...

This study was set out to shed light on the efficacy of pushed output directed by scaffolding on 41 (24 female and 17 male) upper-intermediate EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy. A public version of IELTS speaking test was held to measure learners’ entrance behavior. Then, they were randomly assigned into symmetrical, asymmetrical, and control group. The experimental and control groups...

Lack of social support and social exclusion is associated with adverse effects for mental and physical health. Additionally, women appear to be more vulnerable to social triggers of health disturbances. The hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical-axis (HPA axis) might play a key role in this context as it has been shown both to relate to psychosocial conditions and health outcomes and to respond ...

Although videoconferencing technologies perform an important function in organizational communication, many users remain apprehensive about using the medium for routine communication. The study draws on media choice theory to assess the impact of communication apprehension and participation on perceptions of task characteristics and media traits. The results demonstrate that user aversion to vi...