Communication apprehension in Japan: Grade school through secondary school

Keaten, James A.; Kelly, Lynne; Pribyl, Charles B.

doi:10.1016/s0147-1767(97)00004-7

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“…It is not difficult to imagine that individuals with a high degree of communication apprehension will not participate in group work actively. Keaten, Kelly, and Pribyl (1997) measured levels of self-reported communication apprehension in elementary and secondary school students in Japan, with the Personal Report of Communication Fear questionnaire (McCroskey, Andersen, Richmond, & Wheeless, 1981). Keaten et al reported that the Japanese school children in their study showed increasing levels of first language (L1) communication apprehension in the classroom in general as they grew older (from elementary school to junior high school).…”

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Causal Relationships Between Communication Confidence, Beliefs About Group Work, and Willingness to Communicate in Foreign Language Group Work

Fushino

2010

TESOL Quarterly

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This article reports on the causal relationships between three factors in second language (L2) group work settings: communication confidence (i.e., confidence in one's ability to communicate), beliefs about group work, and willingness to communicate (WTC). A questionnaire was administered to 729 first‐year university students in Japan. A model that reflected the hypothesis that WTC in L2 group work would be influenced by Beliefs in L2 Group Work strengthened by Communication Confidence was constructed and tested. Data were randomly split in two, with one‐half used for model specification and the other half for confirmation. The structural equation modeling confirmed this hypothesis, which implies that L2 WTC and WTC in L2 group work differed. This model marks the first step toward identifying the causal relationships among factors that affect WTC in L2 group work.

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Section: L2 Communication Confidencementioning

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Causal Relationships Between Communication Confidence, Beliefs About Group Work, and Willingness to Communicate in Foreign Language Group Work

Fushino

2010

TESOL Quarterly

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“…Translation procedures for the PRPSA were carried out with the goal of obtaining equivalency (Newmark, 1988), using the same Table 1. Cause of anxiety, anxiety trigger, and presumed means of reduction (Beatty, 1988;Buss, 1980) back-translation methods employed by Keaten, Kelly, and Pribyl (1997).…”

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The effectiveness of a skills‐based program in reducing public speaking anxiety

2001

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Research was conducted to test the effectiveness of a skills‐based program as a method for reducing anxiety during public speaking. Twenty‐five Japanese college sophomores were exposed to a systematic approach for developing a presentation that was theoretically linked to mechanisms to reduce communication apprehension (CA). Students gave four presentations that were graded by both teacher and peer evaluation. Results indicated that the experimental group reported a significantly greater drop in public speaking anxiety than did a control group of 86 students.

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“…Investigations of CA have been conducted in the development, causes, consequences, and treatments of CA (see Daly, McCroskey, Ayres, Hopf & Ayres, 1997). Further, a number of cross-cultural studies of CA have been conducted in several countries (e.g., Hackman & Barthel-Hackman, 1993;Keaten, Lynne, & Pribyl, 1997;Klopf & Cambra, 1979;Olaniran & Roach, 1994;Watson, Monroe, & Atterstrom, 1989). However, most of the research focused on comparing levels of CA between two nations or cultures.…”

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Communication apprehension in Japan: Grade school through secondary school

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Causal Relationships Between Communication Confidence, Beliefs About Group Work, and Willingness to Communicate in Foreign Language Group Work

Causal Relationships Between Communication Confidence, Beliefs About Group Work, and Willingness to Communicate in Foreign Language Group Work

The effectiveness of a skills‐based program in reducing public speaking anxiety

The influence of self‐construals, family and teacher communication patterns on communication apprehension among college students in Taiwan

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