ERIC Number: EJ748220
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 10
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Managing Presentation Anxiety
Hartman, Jackie L.; LeMay, Elaine
Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, v46 n3 p145-154 Fall 2004
All business communication professors struggle with anxiety-ridden students when discussing public speaking. To alleviate students' fears of speaking in public a process was designed to allow business communication students to acknowledge, address, and annul their presentation fears. A six-year comparative study using qualitative methods and quantitative analysis was performed. Results showed that acknowledgment of presentation fears, required readings, lectures, practice sessions, peer evaluations, videotaped examples of effective presentations, class discussions and presentations, and re-acknowledgment of fears alleviated a number of presentation fears expressed by students.
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Student Attitudes, Fear, Anxiety, Comparative Analysis, Peer Evaluation, Business Communication, Teaching Methods, Visual Aids, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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