Understanding gender differences in students' anxiety in a seminar presentation

I Iskandar,A Aldiansyah,Suardi Sahid

doi:10.33750/ijhi.v1i1.6

Abstract

This paper discusses students` anxiety and gender differences faced by male and female in the presentation. The main focus is to see the anxiety affected by gender differences in a presentation at the State University of Makassar conducted in 2016, the subjects of this research were the students` at Graduate Program who conduct seminar presentation from September to the last of December. The researcher used purposive sampling by taking two males and two female students as a participant to be observed. The instruments that the researcher used were Observation checklist, field notes, and interview. The result of the research shows the significance related anxiety and gender differences which male anxiety is affected by their thought while female anxiety is affected by their feeling in a seminar presentation.

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Research on anxiety and gender differences has been hotly and creatively debated recently as an important aspect of linguistics- related research in areas such as psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics
The researcher took all of the participants from September until November; the researcher observed all of the student's presentation to know whether the gender differences of anxiety in Seminar Presentation
3.1 Anxiety is Affected by Gender Differences Concerning to the result, it revealed that the gender differences on anxiety only differ in feel and behavior from four differences where think and talk are same when they are in high anxious, man and female have different ways to express their feeling in anxiety, different act or behavior which are related to the students anxious in using nonverbal language

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Introduction

Research on anxiety and gender differences has been hotly and creatively debated recently as an important aspect of linguistics- related research in areas such as psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Shibley,et al (2002: 150), note that anxiety is viewed as a subjective emotional state, and by definition it can only be observed by the person experiencing it. In this case, the measurement of anxiety would have to rely exclusively on the person’s selfreport of the emotional experience. If anxiety is viewed in terms of physiological arousal, measurement will focus on indicators such as heart rate and respiration. While each of these three measurement approaches has helped to advance our knowledge about anxiety, no single approach by itself provides a complete picture. Anxiety is best viewed as a multifaceted construct that calls for measurement in several response systems (subjective, behavioral, and physiological), none of which uniquely defines anxiety

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