The Correlation Between Awareness and Oral Communication Competency in Students of X from Ages 13 to 18

Abstract

The research aims to frame an individual's awareness of being monitored as potentially exclusive in altering the quality of one's oral communicative speech by controlling other extraneous factors and isolating the aforementioned variable of interest. A mixed, qualitative, and quantitative method study was conducted by quantifying the qualitative data collected during voluntary interviews. A total of 14 subjects were engaged in the quantitative part of this research study, interview. The results showed that the Hawthorne Effect has a positive and negative relationship between awareness and efficacy in ameliorating speech disfluencies. However, it is not necessarily negatively moderated by the magnitude of explicitness of their state of being monitored. As with any dependent measures, variability in speech is one concern as it may obscure potential differences or indicators due to speech disfluencies for other diseases. Because this study validated that the number of speech disfluencies one exhibits are moderately dependent on the state of awareness, such may be a problem depreciating the credibility of diagnosis of speech disfluencies or other relevant ailments. Exploring this field will advance the contemporary understanding of speech disfluencies, the Hawthorne effect, and the nudge theory.