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Perceptual differences were found on … Expand. Correlates of quietness: Swedish and American perspectives. This study examined the means of and correlations between perceptions of willingness to communicate, communication apprehension, communication competence, and introversion of college students in the … Expand. Communication apprehension CA has emerged as the dominant paradigm for explaining communication stress and its corollaries.
It has achieved this status largely because several key assumptions have … Expand. The Measurement of Shyness. Shyness is not unlike many psychological constructs in that it connotes a rich cluster of behaviors, cognitions, feelings, and bodily reactions. It reduces to no single, concrete object or referent; … Expand. This study focuses on communication correlates of compulsive communication. Participants in the study completed the Talkaholic Scale as a measure of their tendency to be a compulsive communicator.
Author of Tool: McCroskey, J. Measure of shyness - actual communication behaviour of reduced talking. Shyness Scale SS and instructions. Fragility of Happiness Scale. Join Us on Social Media. Website Design by Annertech. That is, as suggested by Crozier , anxiety can impact the efficiency of processing adversely when the task requires the central executive or articulatory loop.
Such impediment occurs most probably in testing contexts like that of Darke and the present study. Likewise, Wine attributed performance deficiencies to attentional processes. The explanation seems sensible in a testing context where learners tend to direct their attention to cues that are irrelevant to the task at hand. They become more preoccupied with their inability to perform well on the task and consequently digress from what they need to cater for leading to dyfluent performance.
Shy learners at all levels of proficiency tend to be more reticent, rarely initiate a conversation, and speak fewer words when they are called on. From a different perspective, the findings suggest mere relationship devoid of causality. The multiplicity of the link defies circular reasoning that construes of behavioral manifestations of personality traits as unitary, stable, and uniquely temperamental. The same reciprocity should be applied in interpreting the relationship among CA and shyness, as two personality traits, and the accuracy and fluency of task-based speech, as the behavior observed, with a focus on the social context in which the research data were collected.
The English laboratory with three sets of measurement devices that could have reminded them of prior testing experiences and provoked higher levels of shyness and CA, and consequently declined fluency and accuracy.
Based on the findings that reassert the common belief that affect dominates cognition, and despite inherent limitations and inevitable delimitations, we may still draw two fundamental conclusions. Secondly, the positive relationship between shyness and CA, as reported above, seems to intensify the link among shyness, anxiety-related CA, and lack of self-confidence. Adult English learners approach the task of learning while maintaining their emotional concerns.
They are anxious about certain classroom situations that keep recurring, for instance, fear of being teased for their mistakes by a more capable peer or by the teacher. Although such situations might now be very scarce, the contingent tension can gradually contribute to the formation of unfavorable traits like CA and shyness.
Teachers are recommended to apply stress-reduction strategies like explaining the process of learning and highlighting the inevitability of errors. In addition, teachers should plan their teaching and sharpen their understanding of the lesson objectives in order to devise illuminating explanations and examples, and strike the right balance between input and uptake by using cooperative and collaborative tasks and activities that are at the right level of difficulty and complexity and do not oblige learners to outperform their competence.
Babapoor, M. Research in English Language Pedagogy , 6 2 , Research in English Language Pedagogy , 6, 2, , Research in English Language Pedagogy , ; 6 2 : Guide for Authors. Submit Manuscript. Contact Us. Full Text. Introduction Learning English is nowadays equated with developing a balanced communicative command that allows interaction for a multitude of purposes.
Methodology 3. Participants To serve the purpose of the study, we recruited a sample of 50 intermediate female learners selected from a pool of 70 learners at Andishey-e Sabze Ehsan Language Institute based on their performance on a Preliminary English Test PET.
Data Collection Procedure The research setting was an equipped language laboratory where we collected the research data. Table 1. Table 2. Correlation is significant at the 0. Table 3. Table 4. Discussion The findings emerging from the present enquiry substantiated positive correlation between shyness and CA, and negative relationship between these two affective factors and the fluency and accuracy of the participants' task-based speech.
Conclusion Based on the findings that reassert the common belief that affect dominates cognition, and despite inherent limitations and inevitable delimitations, we may still draw two fundamental conclusions. Adeyemo, S. Assessing communication apprehension and implication for employability among mass communication students. Journal of Humanitits and Social Science , 22 3 , Arquero, J. Relationships between communication apprehension, ambiguity tolerance and learning styles in accounting students.
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