Many are afraid of public speeches ; be it in formal or informal settings. The reasons for this fear ranges from visible and non-visible factors. While many are able to cope well to overcome their fear of oral presentations, some are paralysed by this fear. Interestingly, one of the main evaluation for language learning is through oral presentation. The environment does play an important role in the learning of language .As such, the environment is also known to either reduce or produce fear among the language learners. This quantitative study is done to investigate the factors that lead to the fear of oral presentation, especially fear of negative evaluation. This study also explore the relationship between all the three constructs; fear of negative evaluation, external and internal reasons. 129 respondents responded to the instrument survey. The survey has 4 sections, section A has items on demographic profile, section B has 9 items on fear of negative evaluation, section C has 7 items on external factors, and section D has 7 items on internal factors. Findings revealed that there is a weak positive relationship between fear of negative evaluation and external and internal factors. There is a strong positive relationship between external and internal; factors. These findings bear interesting implications in the teaching of oral presentation to language instructors. The findings in this study contributes to the body of knowledge on the fear of oral presentations among people in general and language learners specifically.
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To Cite this Article: Rahmat, N. H., Mohandas, E. S., Razlan, Z., Arepin, M., Azizul Hassan, A. F., & 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 and Social Sciences. 12(7), 1253– 1263.
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