This paper presents a public speaking training plan adapted from Toastmasters International’s Handbook of Competent Communication to reduce students’ communication apprehension. The draws on Kolb’s (1984) experiential learning theory, which links experience, perception, cognition and behaviour, making it particularly well suited for developing practical skills such as speaking. programme engage...

Glossophobia, an individual’s anxiety of public speaking, has been observed to be a common phenomenon among students. The present study explores factors associated with glossophobia ESL students tertiary institution in Upper-West Ghana, the Dr. Hilla Limann Technical University, Wa and makes recommendations for improvement their speaking skills. combined both quantitative qualitative research a...

This is a preliminary and exploratory study aimed to examine and quantify speaking and articulation rate among professional Hebrew speaking radio newscasters. Nineteen radio newscasters (ten men and nine women) were digitally recorded during live public broadcasts. The newscasters were assigned to two age-groups: “younger” (under 30 years) and “older” (over 58 years). All recordings were first ...

In August 1998, an interviewer for an Indonesian news weekly asked Amien Rais, a major figure in national Islamic politics and founder of the National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional), why he had altered the name of the party from the originally proposed Partai Amanat Bangsa. He replied, “We chose Partai Amanat Nasional because it would be better translated into English as National Mandat...

Can virtual reality exposure therapy be used to treat people with social phobia? To answer this question it is vital to known if people will respond to virtual humans (avatars) in a virtual social setting in the same way they would to real humans. If someone is extremely anxious with real people, will they also be anxious when faced with simulated people, despite knowing that the avatars are co...

This study aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between students’ public speaking and muhadhoroh training with the title “The Correlation of Muhadhoroh Training Eighth Grade Students’ Public Speaking at Al-Manshuriyah Islamic Boarding School Tangerang”. The research subjects in this were 28 eighth grade students. was quantitative survey method. data instruments tests questionnaires...

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...

In this paper, we introduce results for the task of Automatic Public Speech Assessment (APSA). Given the comparably sparse work carried out on this task up to this point, a novel database was required for training and evaluation of machine learning models. As a basis, the freely available oral presentations of the ICASSP conference in 2011 were selected due to their transcription including non-...