Abstract. The main barriers to science communication are common in different fields and they widely identified the literature. Studies focused on specific scientific communities framed as an activity with specificities of each context field. In this study, we analysed geoscientists' representations attitudes about understand which factors can have significant impact prediction public engagement...

The study of various general orientations toward communication has held an important place in communication research for over a half-century. This research has been conducted under a wide variety of conceptualizations. These have included stage fright, speech anxiety, communication apprehension, shyness, reticence, unwillingness to communicate, willingness to communicate, talkativeness, verbal ...

The possible benefits of digital games for language learning and teaching have received increasing interest in recent years. Games are said, amongst others, to be motivating, to lower affective barriers in learning, and to encourage foreign or second language (L2) interaction. But how do learners actually experience the use of games? What impact does gameplay have on students’ perceptions of th...

This study investigated first year university students' willingness and anxiety levels in speaking English EAP classrooms. UCS FLCAS were employed to create a questionnaire collect 31 participants' responses. The major findings are as follows: a) participants demonstrated higher than average WTC broad sense; b) only one third of them reported feeling anxious about classes; c) the fear being neg...