BACKGROUND The main aim of this study was to assess the reliability and structural validity of the French version of the 12-item version of the Personal Report of Confidence as Speaker (PRCS), one of the most promising measurements of public speaking fear. METHODS A total of 611 French-speaking volunteers were administered the French versions of the short PRCS, the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Sc...

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the development of treatments to help people reduce their public speaking anxiety (PSA) in a variety of circumstances. A review of literature suggests that several treatments have been found to be effective in reducing communication apprehension. However, it has not been determined whether Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT) has proven to be as...

stereoscopic viewing on presence, anxiety and cybersickness in a virtual reality environment for public speaking. 1 Correspondence to [email protected]. stereoscopic viewing on presence, anxiety and cybersickness in a virtual reality environment for public speaking. Abstract In this study, we addressed the effect of stereoscopy on presence, anxiety and cybersickness in a virtual public speaking...

This paper presents a study on learners' level of anxiety when a podcast was used in developing their public speaking skills. This study employs a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design where the control group was taught using the traditional method whilst a podcast was used as a teaching aid on the treatment group. The podcast makes it possible for the learners...

In virtual reality (VR), it is possible to embody avatars that are dissimilar to the physical self. We examined whether embodying a dissimilar self in VR would decrease anxiety in a public speaking situation. We report the results of an observational pilot study and two laboratory experiments. In the pilot study (N = 252), participants chose an avatar to use in a public speaking task. Trait pub...

Speaking is an essential skill that students should master because it requires oral communication such as, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, and comprehension. This study aims to determine the correlation between speaking class anxiety their English skills. The participants in this were sixth semester majoring Education, Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia which consisted of 39 students....

This study aims to investigate whether students with introverted and extroverted personalities have significantly different levels of anxiety or not. involved 59 the English Education Study Program at one state universities in North Sumatra. Samples were taken randomly from five classes sixth semester who took Public Speaking course. Semi-structured technique was used data collection. The proce...

The ability to efficiently speak in public is an essential asset for many professions and is used in everyday life. As such, tools enabling the improvement of public speaking performance and the assessment and mitigation of anxiety related to public speaking would be very useful. Multimodal interaction technologies, such as computer vision and embodied conversational agents, have recently been ...

<p>Public speaking anxiety poses great challenges to developing these skills. It is estimated that approximately 15% 30% of the general population suffer from public anxiety, which most common type social phobia. Excessive can lead enormous stress and frustration, impaired speech performance, further avoidance situations require making presentations, especially for students. This study ai...