Motivated by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies in university students learning, this study will explore students’ motivations for using CMC technologies in their learning. By employing uses and gratifications (U&G) perspective, this paper aims to identify dimensions of motivation in students’ CMC technology use. It also proposes that students’ techn...

Introduction. Communication apprehension is significant in understanding the language skills acquisition of foreign students. However, studies on communication have been devoted mainly to second learners English Language. Consequently, there is, body literature, insufficient evidence understand factors that impact third learners. This gap can limit capacity researchers interested mechanism unde...

The present study focuses on the anxiety level of undergraduates enrolled in private universities Nangarhar, Afghanistan. used a survey descriptive design for data collection from sample two hundred students four selected through non-random convenient sampling technique. was collected Likert Scale adapted Horwitz & Cope (1986). analyzed SPSS, while difference between groups t-test. found th...

Research was conducted to test the effectiveness of a skills-based program as a method for reducing anxiety during public speaking. Twenty-five Japanese college sophomores were exposed to a systematic approach for developing a presentation that was theoretically linked to mechanisms to reduce communication apprehension (CA). Students gave four presentations that were graded by both teacher and ...

Not much is known about event apprehension, the earliest stage of information processing in elicited language production studies, using pictorial stimuli. A reason for our lack of knowledge on this process is that apprehension happens very rapidly (<350 ms after stimulus onset, Griffin & Bock 2000), making it difficult to measure the process directly. To broaden our understanding of apprehensio...

As people all over the world continue to adjust new normal presented them by COVID-19, they must social restrictions that have been enforced. These include shelter-in-place and work-from-home orders severely limit face-to-face interactions were considered a norm in many peoples’ lives (e.g., speaking with grocer, hair stylist, etc.). individuals these changes, their communication behaviors adap...

Individuals' attitudes about persons with disability (PwD) strongly affect differently-abled persons' quality of life and position in society. Some research offers support for the ability of systematic, supported, longitudinal contact between different groups of individuals to improve attitudes. College campuses, in particular, offer a potentially useful arena in which to facilitate this type o...