Communicative Fears in Public Speaking of the Third Year AB English Students

Abstract

This study determined the extent of communicative fears in public speaking of the Third Year AB English students, S.Y. 2014-2015. The descriptive method of research was used in this study. The respondents of this study were seventy-five (75) third Year AB English Language students, of which thirty-eight (38) were taken from section A and thirty-seven (37) students from section B. Majority or sixty-six (66) respondents were female; 21 or 28% and 28 or 16% of the respondents’ father and mother’s educational attainment were high school graduate. It was also found out that 27 or 38.5% of respondent fathers’ occupation were skilled workers; 20 or 26.67% respondents mother were self-employed. In GPA in English subjects, fifty-nine (59) respondents obtained a GPA of 2.26-2.25 described as fair; 73 respondents experienced oral delivery of report in class. With regards to exposure to media the students were exposed to broadcast media (3.43) and electronic/social media (3.51) while they are moderately exposed to print media with a weighted mean of 3.04. In terms of extent of communicative fears in public speaking, the students have moderate fear on failure to speak (3.19); on unknown audience (3.14); on being stared (2.91); on being rejected (3) and on speaking during group or public discussion (2.8). Moreover, findings revealed that more of the profile variables were not significantly related to extent of communicative fears experienced by the students in public speaking as evidenced by the computed p-value for each variable which is greater than the tabled value at 0.05 level of significance. However, other few profile variables were significantly related to extent of communicative fears experienced by the students in public speaking because the computed p-value for each variable is lesser than the tabled value.