Communication strategies play a vital role in helping students improve their English proficiency and their ability in oral presentation. However, there are students struggling to communicate in English due to their low ability. This is mainly because they lack the proper communication strategies. Thus, this study is conducted to find the communication strategies that are used in their oral presentation and factors that result in students’ fear of oral presentations. This study employed a quantitative survey comprising three sections in order to get a more in-depth data analysis. A total of 210 students from a public university in Malaysia served as the respondents of this study. The results obtained show that the respondents use message reduction, orientation, and non-verbal strategies the most and they are influenced by several internal and external factors that cause fear in oral presentation. The use of oral communicative strategies has proven to be effective in assisting learners to overcome their fear in oral presentation.
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