This document presents the research proposal of Uzairah Binti Mohd Ali to study diminishing communication apprehension among semester one students at Kolej Poly-Tech Mara Ipoh through group work activities. The study aims to identify factors causing students' poor communication skills, determine if psychological and socio-cultural factors lead to English communication anxiety, and suggest ways to enhance students' self-esteem through group work. The research will use questionnaires to identify students' attitudes and factors affecting communication barriers, and observation to analyze if group work reduces anxiety. Results will be analyzed using SPSS to calculate means, percentages and number of anxious students.
The purpose of this study was to identify the psychological factors involved in oral communication of ESL students. The research aimed to uncover the psychological barriers like learner’s self-esteem and self-opinions in oral competency of ESL students at graduate level. The investigation was carried out at Bahawalpur, Pakistan. This research was reported on a survey study and used a questionnaire for the students and interview format for the teachers as tools to investigate the issue. The interview was taken from forty highly experienced ESL/EFL teachers; and for questionnaire almost 100 students from each college were selected, total 498 ESL students participated in this research. The data provided through interview from teacher was analyzed qualitatively and the data from the students was analyzed through SPSS and Microsoft Excel. The following conclusion was drawn from the data collected from this investigation: Psychological factors affect student’s oral competency. This investigation has proved informative implications and suggested a variety of strategies for learners to cope with second language anxiety and for teachers to recognize and handle the learner’s fears.
The purpose of this study was to identify the psychological factors involved in oral communication of ESL students. The research aimed to uncover the psychological barriers like learner’s self-esteem and self-opinions in oral competency of ESL students at graduate level. The investigation was carried out at Bahawalpur, Pakistan. This research was reported on a survey study and used a questionnaire for the students and interview format for the teachers as tools to investigate the issue. The interview was taken from forty highly experienced ESL/EFL teachers; and for questionnaire almost 100 students from each college were selected, total 498 ESL students participated in this research. The data provided through interview from teacher was analyzed qualitatively and the data from the students was analyzed through SPSS and Microsoft Excel. The following conclusion was drawn from the data collected from this investigation: Psychological factors affect student’s oral competency. This investigation has proved informative implications and suggested a variety of strategies for learners to cope with second language anxiety and for teachers to recognize and handle the learner’s fears.
The purpose of this study was to identify the factors related to the teacher’s attitude involved in oral communication of ESL students. The investigation was carried out at Bahawalpur, Pakistan. This research was reported on a survey study and used a questionnaire for the students and interview format for the teachers as tools to investigate the issue. The interview was taken from forty highly experienced ESL/EFL teachers; and for questionnaire almost 100 students from each college were selected, total 498 ESL students participated in this research. The data provided through interview from teacher was analyzed qualitatively and the data from the students was analyzed through SPSS and Microsoft Excel. The following conclusion was drawn from the data collected from this investigation: Instructor’s attitude motivates debilitating speaking factors. This investigation has proved explanatory implications and additionally this study also examined the attitudes and opinions of language teachers about second language learning and teaching. Furthermore, the research suggested a variety of strategies for learners to cope with second language anxiety.
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In recent years, communicative approach is considered one of the primary methods to develop students’
speaking competence. When applying communicative approach in the classroom, information gap activities are
employed to promote students’ oral skill. These activities have brought many benefits for students in the classroom and
become good stimulations for students to boost their speaking skills. The study took place at Dong Nai Technology
University with the objectives to investigate the students’ perspectives of teachers using the information gap activities
to help students improve their speaking competence. The data were collected via survey questionnaires and semistructured interviews in sequence. Sixty students took part in the survey questionnaire to answer 14 questions on their
perception on speaking skills and information gap activities. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with 6
volunteer students to explain more deeply about their answers in the survey questionnaires to evaluate the validity of
the findings from the survey and give the answers to see whether these activities can affect students’ speaking skills in
the developed way. The findings from the study shows that information gaps activities are effectively utilized for the
development of students’ speaking skills
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The purpose of this study was to identify the factors related to the teacher’s attitude involved in oral communication of ESL students. The investigation was carried out at Bahawalpur, Pakistan. This research was reported on a survey study and used a questionnaire for the students and interview format for the teachers as tools to investigate the issue. The interview was taken from forty highly experienced ESL/EFL teachers; and for questionnaire almost 100 students from each college were selected, total 498 ESL students participated in this research. The data provided through interview from teacher was analyzed qualitatively and the data from the students was analyzed through SPSS and Microsoft Excel. The following conclusion was drawn from the data collected from this investigation: Instructor’s attitude motivates debilitating speaking factors. This investigation has proved explanatory implications and additionally this study also examined the attitudes and opinions of language teachers about second language learning and teaching. Furthermore, the research suggested a variety of strategies for learners to cope with second language anxiety.
This study focuses on the listening anxiety experienced by teacher candidates (TCs) in Iran and Turkey. Using different data collection methods, including two questionnaires, listening test, and semi-structured interviews, this study tried to investigate the factors behind Foreign Language Listening Anxiety (FLLA) among Iranian teacher candidates (TCs). The participants of the study in Iran context were 29 teacher candidates studying at BA level in English Language Teaching. All of the participants were asked to complete these two questionnaires with the background information regarding their age, gender, years of language study. The participants’ answers to FLLAS and FLCAS were analyzed with spss to obtain frequencies and percentages. The results were compared to the same study by Bekleyen. The findings revealed that Iranian TCs experienced a high level of FLLA compared to Turkish TCs and showed a significant positive correlation between FLLA and FLCA, which means that teacher candidates with higher levels of language anxiety tended to have higher levels of listening anxiety. In addition, interview data suggested that Iranian and Turkish participants’ FLLA mostly originated from the same source: inadequacy of past education in listening skill. Furthermore, practice was the most frequent strategy used by participants in these two countries to overcome this kind of anxiety.
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In recent years, communicative approach is considered one of the primary methods to develop students’
speaking competence. When applying communicative approach in the classroom, information gap activities are
employed to promote students’ oral skill. These activities have brought many benefits for students in the classroom and
become good stimulations for students to boost their speaking skills. The study took place at Dong Nai Technology
University with the objectives to investigate the students’ perspectives of teachers using the information gap activities
to help students improve their speaking competence. The data were collected via survey questionnaires and semistructured interviews in sequence. Sixty students took part in the survey questionnaire to answer 14 questions on their
perception on speaking skills and information gap activities. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with 6
volunteer students to explain more deeply about their answers in the survey questionnaires to evaluate the validity of
the findings from the survey and give the answers to see whether these activities can affect students’ speaking skills in
the developed way. The findings from the study shows that information gaps activities are effectively utilized for the
development of students’ speaking skills
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1. UZAIRAH BINTI MOHD ALI
2014565009
DIMINISHING
COMMUNICATION
APPREHENSION AMONG
SEMESTER ONE STUDENTS IN
KOLEJ POLY-TECH MARA
(KPTM) IPOH THROUGH GROUP
WORK ACTIVITY
2. INTRODUCTION
In this globalisation era, the job market becomes highly competitive therefor
the tertiary level of education needs to produce students who are able to fulfil
the employability requirements.
Graduates have the tendency to be unemployed because their communication
skill does not satisfy their future employer (Singh & Sharan Kaur Garib Singh,
2008).
Speaking is dealing with communication, a process to enable people share
information, ideas and feeling orally.
3. RESEARCH BACKGROUND
This research is to highlight whether psychological and socio cultural factors leads to
communication apprehension and suggest way to lessen the CA among Semester one
students in Diploma in Multimedia at Kolej Poly-Tech Mara Ipoh.
Role-play is believed to diminish CA as stated by (Baharuddin & Rashid, 2014),
there is inverse relationship between the different components of apprehension and
the students’ oral performance, which is consistent with the results of previous
studies that revealed a negative relationship between anxiety and oral performance.
4. PROBLEM STATEMENT
The lecturers in KPTM Ipoh always complain on students’ communication skill
such as in their presentation, communication/discussion with peers, and
crucially during teaching and learning process in classroom.
It does not only happen in English class but for other subjects as well. They
become passive, did not participate in class activity and reluctant to give
feedback to the lecturer.
5. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
The research objectives of this research are as follows:
To identify the students attitudes towards speaking English in classroom
especially in Proficiency English 1 course.
To determine whether psychological and socio-cultural are the factors
of English communication anxiety among semester one Diploma in
Multimedia in KPTM Ipoh.
To suggest group work activity as a way to enhance students’ self-esteem
to speak in English classroom .
6. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
This research is intentionally to answer the following research questions:
What are the students’ attitudes towards speaking English in
classroom?
Do psychological and socio-cultural factors lead to communication
barriers in English classroom?
Is group work activity able to reduce the English communication
apprehension among students in classroom?
8. RESEARCH DESIGN
Combined design:
mixed methods; survey and action research.
Survey method:
Distributes a set of questionnaires ‘to identify important beliefs and views of the
second language learners of English.’ (Creswell, 2008)
Classroom action research CAR:
- According to Burn (2010), there are four basic characteristics of CAR:
situational, collaborative, participatory and self-evaluative.
9. RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS
Research questions Instruments
1. What are the students’ attitudes towards
speaking English in classroom?
Questionnaires
2. Do psychological and socio-cultural factors
lead to communication barriers in English
classroom?
Questionnaires
3. Do group work activity able to reduce the
English communication apprehension among
students in classroom?
Observation
10. DATA ANALYSIS
Research questions Instruments Data analysis
1. What are the students’
attitudes towards speaking
English in classroom?
Questionnaires SPSS statistical computer
package – means and
percentages
2. Do psychological and socio-
cultural factors lead to
communication barriers in
English classroom?
Questionnaires SPSS statistical computer
package – means and
percentages
3. Do group work activity able to
reduce the English
communication apprehension
among students in classroom?
Observation &
questionnaires
Number of students’
anxious, its percentage
