Facing the fear: An analysis of speech-anxiety content in public-speaking textbooks

Judy C. Pearson; Lori DeWitt; Jeffrey T. Child; David H. Kahl; Vijay Dandamudi

doi:10.1080/08824090701304923

Facing the fear: An analysis of speech-anxiety content in public-speaking textbooks

Judy C. Pearson, Lori DeWitt, Jeffrey T. Child, David H. Kahl, Vijay Dandamudi

School of Humanities & Social Sciences (Behrend)

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Communication apprehension is arguably the largest problem facing novice public speakers. To succeed in the basic communication course, students must learn to overcome or lessen the communication apprehension they feel. Because students learn about communication apprehension largely through the texts they use, the coverage that top ten selling public-speaking textbooks provide has an effect on students' perceptions on the subject. A content analysis of five aspects of CA was conducted, and chi-square analysis was used to determine significant differences among the terms and the texts.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	159-168
Number of pages	10
Journal	Communication Research Reports
Volume	24
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08824090701304923
State	Published - May 2007

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