"Det hade varit som om jorden gick under" : En kvalitativ studie om talängslan

• Main Author: Larsson, Amanda
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle 2017
• Subjects: Specific Languages; Studier av enskilda språk
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-34011

The purpose of this essay was to survey why students still suffer from speech anxiety, eventhough the new curriculum, present multiple opportunies to practice oral speaking. From this purpose, this question emerged: What kind of aspects affect the students’ who are suffering from speech anxiety? What kind of aspects affect the students´ who are not suffering from speech anxiety? What is separating them? Interviews were conducted with six students and from these eleven different categories were created. These eleven categories were analyzed by using the concept and theory of gender and speech anxiety. The result was that students´ with speech anxiety had bad past experience, little practice and had negative thoughts of themselves as well as they did´nt see the purpose of practice in argue speech. The result was that students´who didn´t suffer from speech anxiety thought highly of themsleves, had a good self confidence, had strategies to handle the speech situation and had practiced alot. However, what separated them mostly was how they thought of themselves and how they handled the situation.