Fear of Oral Presentation: Pair Vs Group

Abstract

There are four types of communication skills taught in a language classroom, namely speaking, writing, reading and listening. These four skills are also separate language skills known as productive and receptive skills. Speaking and writing are categorised as the productive skills. This study aims to identify learners’ speaking abilities through oral presentations. Language learners fear oral presentation due to negative evaluation and social-environment factors. One way to lessen the burden and fear of speaking among learners is by focusing on group activities when it comes to language learning. This study is done to investigate how language learners feel about pair and group work oral presentation. This quantitative research will investigate the prevalence of fear of oral presentation among learners of English as a second language. 56 respondents were purposively chosen to answer the survey. Findings in this study has shown that learners are equally affected by their external and internal fear when it comes to oral presentation. Findings of this study bear interesting pedagogical implications in the teaching and learning of oral presentation.