Social anxiety disorder is one of the most common, disabling and persistent of the anxiety disorders. We have developed a cognitive therapy programme for adults, which specifically targets the maintaining factors outlined in Clark and Wells’ (1995) model. Randomised controlled trials show that the treatment is highly effective. It is recommended as the first treatment option by NICE. However, t...

The communicator's ability to convey information in front of the public is something that needs attention. Style speaking, body language, psychological condition communicator, are parts need be well prepared. Feelings anxiety, worry, or commonly known as stage fright, often occur when communicator an audience. This study tries describe difficulties faced by students making presentations lecture...

over the last few years, role of computers has become a controversial issue in language learning. this study was designed to examine the impact of computer anxiety and computer self-efficacy on the speaking section of the toefl ibt test taken by intermediate efl learners. the researchers intended to find out, which var- iable i.e. computer anxiety and/or self-efficacy would result in better per...

The general purpose of the study was to investigate EFL learners‟ speaking anxiety and its associated factors. More specifically, purposed examine constructs a explore model for predicting based on gender, proficiency class type. Therefore, explanatory factor analysis multiple linear regression were used. result indicated that there are two factors in anxiety, but they difficult name as overlap...

Social phobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by heightened fear and avoidance of one or more social or performance situations, including public speaking, meeting new people, eating or writing in front of others and attending social meetings. People with social phobia are typically anxious about the possibility that others will evaluate them negatively and/or notice symptoms of their anxie...

Many students found that actively participating in direct discussion sessions of speaking class is hard. There are various problems they felt whenever wanted to speak the class. Thus, this study aimed discover what major encountered by a which cause low participation during discussion. This uses survey research and questionnaire as instrument. The subjects were 34 English Education Department 5...