Although anxiety is an important component of individuals’ relationship with public speaking, it only represents a portion the story. Specifically, understanding attitudes toward speaking can help instructors develop improved methods for teaching and assessing student performance in speech classes, on oral communication-based university-level learning outcomes. This study addresses our lack tow...

Yusuke Kondo Waseda University Abstract Language anxiety is one of the negative factors in second language acquisition. However, several studies produced inconsistent results and have not concurred in the subcategorization of language anxiety. These inconsistent results seem likely to be caused by socio-cultural differences. This present study investigated the applicability of language anxiety ...

All humans experience anxiety in your life and it is natural that people get anxious when facing stressful situations threatening, but severe and chronic anxiety in the absence of clear cause, is uncommon. Studies show that anxiety in men and a young person are less privileged economic classes and in women, low-income people and the elderly and children and teenagers are more common. When locat...

This paper presents a study about the use of virtual reality techniques Social Anxiety Disorder therapy. The final idea of this technique is to treat social phobic people only by short time exposition in a dedicated stress environment parameterized in real-time. The technique is applied to the problematic of speaking in public with a symbolic representation of an audience. Nevertheless, the sam...

This study presents the results of two studies using a virtual reality (VR) public-speaking training simulation as an instructional aid in basic communication course. Results from first suggest that VR practice was associated with higher subsequent speech delivery grades course compared to no practice. However, did not reduce public speaking anxiety (PSA). In follow-up study, other forms lab-ba...