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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Communication apprehension (CA)"”.
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Treating communication apprehension in the basic public speaking course: A national survey and recommendations
Communication apprehension (CA) or stage fright can result in shaking hands, a quivering voice, nausea, in addition to causing permanent emotional and social damage. Most students enrolled in the basic public speaking course suffer at some level with communication apprehension. With what is at …
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An examination of the effectiveness of an oral communication apprehension reduction program in an ESL class for graduate student
… school. However, many non-native students indicate a lack of confidence when speaking English. This anxiety may cause avoidance or poor performance. Given this situation, would a communication apprehension (CA) reduction program like those administered by speech communication departments be …
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A longitudinal latent growth modeling perspective on communication apprehension, self-perceived communication competence, and willingness to communicate
… proposed and operationalized a theoretically meaningful and practically useful conceptualization of change for three well known communication constructs, namely willingness to communicate (WTC), self-perceived communication competence (SPCC), and communication apprehension (CA). …
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Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety For Community College Students: The Effects of A Combination Anxiety Reduction Technique on Trait and State Anxiety
The effectiveness of a treatment for communication apprehension (CA) was examined in this study. Trait and state anxiety were examined by using community college students enrolled in four sections of a required basic speech communication course. The sample size consisted of 81 students, ranging in …