Public speaking as a form of communication skill has pervaded today’s learning environment. It is in contrast to the previous method delivery which oral obscure. The vicissitudes occur because students need be competent field academics. This vital for students, but hitherto much difficult their anxiety. Additionally, think that act giving speech needs strong volition and confidence. Therefore, ...

background: despite many media campaigns by government and private sectors highlighting, water and sanitation treat­ment plans and policies, the public health problems are still common in different socioeconomic areas. the objective of our study was to explore the major public health problems prevailing in two different socio economic areas in karachi, pakistan. methods: a cross sectional surve...

Foreign language anxiety is a type of that specific to learning process. Anxiety can not only impact the students’ negatively but it also enforce them give up their studied (Horwitz, 2017; Malik et al., 2020; Milan, 2019). In Pakistan, there lack research in field and majority teachers students are fully cognizant its existence effects on (Samad, 2014). Most previous studies have investigated f...

We have developed an interactive virtual audience platform for public speaking training. Users’ public speaking behavior is automatically analyzed using audiovisual sensors. The virtual characters display indirect feedback depending on user’s behavior descriptors correlated with public speaking performance. We used the system to collect a dataset of public speaking performances in different tra...

BACKGROUND Neurofunctional changes underlying effective antianxiety treatments are incompletely characterized. This study explored the effects of citalopram and cognitive-behavioral therapy on regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in social phobia. METHODS By means of positron emission tomography with oxygen 15-labeled water, rCBF was assessed in 18 previously untreated patients with social pho...

Students’ anxiety, speaking performance and their relation to genders have been investigated extensively in the EFL context most participants are English students, but of studies with same variables were conducted an offline setting. Thus, purpose this research is describe anxiety levels students who studied another language than learning investigate relationship between English-speaking classe...

The objective of this instrumental study was to investigate the factor structure and the psychometric properties of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) in a Spanish-speaking population. The participants were 2407 subjects (1263 boys and 1144 girls), with an average age of 15 years approximately, attending nine public high schools in a medium size county in Spain. The results obtain...