Investigating Pre-service Teachers' Oral Performance Anxiety in Islamic and Asian Civiizations Content

DOI

10.2991/icigr-17.2018.42How to use a DOI?

Keywords

oral performance, anxiety, test anxiety (TA); fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and communication apprehension (CA)

Abstract

Oral performance skills are important for the pre-service teachers as part of the professional requirement for their job specifications as future educators. Thus, in presentation skill, the pre-service teachers might encounter oral performance anxiety which has positive and negative impacts on the pre-service teachers. A step of viewing the pre-service teachers' anxiety was taken by giving them survey questions called OPAS (Oral Performance Anxiety Scale). The constructs given might give the information on which construct that the pre-service teachers feel anxious in oral performance. Oral performance anxiety can be defined along test anxiety (TA), fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and communication apprehension (CA). Specifically, the study examines oral performance anxiety associated to the sub-constructs namely TA, FNE and CA. Data for this study was obtained through a survey questionnaire called OPAS that was administered to 73 pre-service teachers in Institute of teacher education to investigate their oral performance anxiety prior to the oral performance in Islamic and Asian Civilisations contents. Findings suggest that most of the students experienced the different levels of oral performance anxiety from different sub-constructs. The lecturers will have the awareness about the process of the oral performance skills defined in the constructs of anxiety.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Mimi Rita @ Aishah binti Tajuddin
AU  - Aizan bin Yaacob
AU  - Faizahani Ab. Rahman
PY  - 2018/01
DA  - 2018/01
TI  - Investigating Pre-service Teachers' Oral Performance Anxiety in Islamic and Asian Civiizations Content
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intellectuals' Global Responsibility (ICIGR 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 172
EP  - 176
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icigr-17.2018.42
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