Students' oral presenting skills can be significantly enhanced through the use of communication strategies. Nonetheless, some students struggle to communicate in English due to their lack of proficiency. This is primarily because they lack effective communication techniques. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the communication strategies performed by students during oral presentations and the factors that contribute to their fear of oral presentations. For a more in-depth data analysis, this study utilised a quantitative survey comprising two sections. Respondents to this survey comprised a total of 131 students from a Malaysian public university. The collected results indicate that respondents utilise message reduction, orientation, and non-verbal methods the most, and that they are influenced by a number of internal and external factors that contribute to their dread of oral presentation. It has been demonstrated that the employment of oral communication strategies is beneficial in assisting students to overcome their fear of oral presentation.
Ahmad, M. F., Salamuddin, N., & Surat, S. (2021). The Marketability of UiTM Products: A Study of Employability Skills Among UiTM Perlis Sports Graduates. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 10(1), 195-207.
Arumugan, N., & Hashim, A. A. B., Selvanayagam, S., & Krishnan, I. A. (2021). Anxiety During Oral Presentations in English Among Malaysian Undergraduates. Journal of ELT and Education, 4(1): 19-24
Bialystok, E. (1997). The structure of age: In search of barriers to second language acquisition. Second Language Research, 13(2): 116-137.
Brydon, S. R., & Scott, M. D. (2000). Between one and many: The art and science of public speaking . Mountain View.
Chu, C. W. L. (2001). Reflective assessment materials for ELT teachers. The English Teacher, 4(3), 243-251
Costa, R. L., Viana, A. C., Ziviani, A., & Sampaio, L. N. (2022). On building human-aware opportunistic communication strategies for cost-effective content delivery. Computer Communications.Vol 192 (2022), pp 106-118.
Endler, N. S. (1980). Person-situation interaction and anxiety. In I. L. Kutash (Ed.), Handbook on stress and anxiety. San Francisco:Jossey-Bass, pp.249-266.
Faerch, C., & Kasper, G. (Eds). (1983). Plans and strategies in foreign language communication. In C. Faerch & G.
Grieve, R., Woodley, J., Hunt, S. E., & McKay, A. (2021). Student fears of oral presentations and public speaking in higher education: a qualitative survey. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 45(9), 1281-1293.
Ibrahim, N., Anuar, N. A. K., Mokhtar, M. I., Zakaria, N., Jasman, N. H., & Rasdi, N. N. (2021). Exploring Fear of Public Speaking Through Social Cognitive Theory. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(1), 135–154.
International Journal of Human Sciences, 10(2), 400-419. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/2685
Jackson, S. L. (2015) Research methods and Statistics-A Critical Thinking Approach (5tH Edition) . Boston, USA:: Cengage Learning.
Lingga, L. M., Simanjuntak, R. M., & Sembiring, Y. (2020). Students’ strategies in learning speaking skills at SMP Nasrani 3 Medan. Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 8(1), 91-99.
Malasit, Y., & Sarobol, N. (Eds.) (2014).Students’ satisfaction towards the eight required courses in the master of arts in english for careers Proceeding of the third International Conference on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching. Bangkok: Thammasat University. http://www.litu.tu.ac.th/journal/download/pdf/The_3rd_LITU%20International_Graduate_Conference.pdf
Masyithoh, H., Fauziati, E., Supriyadi, S. (2018). Communication Strategies Used by the Students on the Perspective of Language Proficiency. International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding. 5(5) , 21-32. Communication_Strategies_Used_by_the_Students_on_t.pdf
Morsidi, S., Samah, N. A., Rahman, K. A. A., Ashari, Z. M., Jumaat, N. F., & Abdullah, A. H. (2021). WhatsApp and Its Potential to Develop Communication Skills among University Students. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, 15(23).
Nusrat, M. (2018). Soft Skills for Sustainable Employment: Does it Really Matter? International Journal of Management and Economics Invention, 04(07). https://doi.org/10.31142/ ijmei/v4i7.03
Rahmat, N. H., Mohandas, E. S., Razlan, Z., Arepin, M., Hassan, A. F. A., & Taib, S. A. (2022) Oral presentation: Is there a relationship between fear of Negative Evaluation and Cause of Fear? International Journal of Academic Research in Business & Social Science, Vol 12(7), pp 1259-1270. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v12-i7/14254
Rahmat,N.H (2019) Cycle of Fear in learning: The Case for Three Language Skills. American Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol 4(1), pp 151-162. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.20448/801.41.151.162
Reinsch, N. L., & Gardner, J. A. (2014). Do communication abilities affect promotion decisions? Some data from the C-Suite. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 28, 31– 57. doi:10.1177/1050651913502357
Richmond, V., & McCroskey, J. (1998). Communication apprehension, avoidance and effectiveness (5*'Ed). Needham Heights, MA: A Viacom Company.
Saleh, N. S., Rosli, M. S., Bakar, T. A., & Ali, A. M. (2021). Communication in Graduate Marketability: Barriers or Opportunities?. Human Sustainability Procedia, 1(2), 10-21.
Sawchuk, C. N. (2017). Fear of public speaking: How can I overcome it? In Mayo Clinic (Vol. 17).
Shamshudeen, R. I., & Rouyan, N. M. (2021). Oral communication strategies preferences in Arabic debate among non-Arabic speakers. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(9), 131-151.
Yaman, S., Kavasoglu, M. (2013). The adaptation study of oral communication strategy inventory into Turkish.
Yuksel, D., Soruc, A., & McKinley, J. (2021). Teachers’ beliefs and practices about oral corrective feedback in university EFL classes. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 31(3), 362-382.10.1111/ijal.12336
In-Text Citation: (Ngah et al., 2022)
To Cite this Article: Ngah, N. S., Safian, N. L., Hussain, S. S. H. @, Hussain, A. M., Ngah, N. S. A., & Rahmat, N. H. (2022). Is There a Balance between Causes of Fear and Use of Communication Strategies? International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(12), 80– 94.
Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s)
Published by Knowledge Words Publications (www.kwpublications.com)
This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
