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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Public Speaking"”.
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Hardiness and public speaking anxiety: Problems and practices.
… the personality construct of hardiness and public speaking anxiety. Although hardiness has been widely explored in a variety of anxiety-arousing life events, its relationship with communication anxiety had not been previously studied. Therefore, hardiness, public speaking trait anxiety, and …
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PRESENTING IN THE PRESENT: PUBLIC SPEAKING IN ONLINE COURSES
… courses as a means of instruction, and although public speaking ability is among employers’ most in-demand skills for college graduates, there exists a scarcity of research measuring students’ public speaking skill development in online courses. Even fewer studies measure public speaking skill …
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Educating Adults Through Distinctive Public Speaking: Lucretia Mott, Quaker Minister
… significance of which reverberates today, spoke publicly about issues of societal and ethical concern. This study focuses on her work as a nineteenth-century female Quaker minister who through public speaking educated adults about the following: abolition of slavery, rights of women, and peaceful …
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"Welcome, fellow toastmasters": The history and membership of a public speaking phenomenon
Since 1905, Toastmasters International (TI) serves as the most recognized organization for voluntary oral communication practice in the world. Due to the dearth of scholarly communication research regarding TI, this thesis details the history, educational structure, and program dynamics of the …
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Virtual reality exposure therapy as a psychological intervention for public speaking anxiety
… therapy as psychological interventions for public speaking anxiety." Note this is a meta-analysis (form of literature review).<br/><br/>Public speaking anxiety (PSA) is a highly prevalent condition which can be associated with disabling occupational, educational and social consequences. A …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of General Eisenhower's Public Speaking From 1945 to 1951
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:56:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7310041.pdf: 7200633 bytes, checksum: c1efae6761b2811098bb0891599c7ba8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Developing standards for the teaching of public speaking in small high schools
… of agreement as to the objectives in teaching public speaking. The range of agreement on the six objectives used in this study is 91 percent to 64 percent. There is, also a fair degree of agreement as to the procedure, which may be followed to obtain these objectives. The percent of agreement …
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The effects of a virtual reality environment on students with public speaking anxiety
Social phobia and public speaking anxiety (PSA) are highly prevalent and debilitating. While psychological treatments have been shown to be effective, few decide to seek treatment. Using virtual reality in an exposure component has been proposed to increase the number of people who seek treatment. …
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Strategies for ESL Students in Community Colleges to Develop Their Public Speaking Skills
… students in community colleges to develop their public speaking skills. Effective oral communication skills are commonly needed by employees in the workplace at all different levels. The project focused on three key areas: 1) ways to reduce the fear and anxiety associated with public speaking; 2) …
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An assessment of curricular methods to reduce communication apprehension among public speaking students
… to reduce communication apprehension among public speaking students. Previous research has found many intervention strategies to be successful in reducing levels of communication apprehension, including both visualization and cognitive restructuring. However, prior research has failed to …
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Do College Students with Public Speaking Anxiety Show an Attentional Bias Toward Threat?
… threatening stimuli exists in individuals with public speaking anxiety. Participants included 61 undergraduates with high and low speech anxiety. AB was measured using a dot-probe paradigm with threatening and neutral words. Reaction times to dot-probes on threatening and neutral trials were …
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The Relation of Eye-Contact to Retention of Information in a Public Speaking Situation
If the purpose of speaking to others is communication, then the purpose of teaching public speaking must be to aid in the learning of those speech skills which will facilitate effective communication. In striving to achieve this goal, every opportunity must be taken to emphasize areas of …
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Treating communication apprehension in the basic public speaking course: A national survey and recommendations
… damage. Most students enrolled in the basic public speaking course suffer at some level with communication apprehension. With what is at stake in terms of success and failure, there needs to be some treatment for CA in these basic public speaking courses. A number of institutions have created …
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The Speaking Cognitions and Attention Scale: An Empirically-Derived Measure of Public Speaking Anxiety
<p>Although public speaking anxiety is one of the most commonly reported causes of both clinical and non-clinical anxiety, many of the currently used questionnaire measures of public speaking anxiety do not reflect the advances made in recent decades regarding empirical methods of test …
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Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed in the Public Speaking and Interpersonal Communication classrooms
… of the Oppressed (TO) techniques in introductory Public Speaking and Interpersonal Communication (IPC) courses. In the first chapter, Boal's democratic praxis is discussed in terms of critical performance pedagogy and Brecht's social aesthetics. I identify the qualitative social scientific method …
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The Use of Systematic Desensitization and Conditioned Relaxation in The Treatment of Public Speaking Anxiety
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Communication theory vs. performance skills: how do Rowan public speaking professors weave both into class lectures?
… study was to understand how Rowan University public speaking professors blend the teaching of communication theory and performance skills in their classroom lectures. The researcher conducted one-on-one interviews and classroom observations of public speaking professors at Rowan. Five …
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A review of the history and structure of public speaking at Nevada Power Company: A case study
The author reviews the history and structure of public speaking at Nevada Power Company. It seeks to: (1) determine whether the principles of public speaking as described in college text books are applied in corporate training, and (2) determine the level of support given by Nevada Power to its …
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