Original scientific paper
Self- and Peer-Assessments of Public Speaking of Future Teachers
Željka Šijačić
; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku Fakultet za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti Osijek, Hrvatska
Marija Sablić
; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku Fakultet za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti Osijek, Hrvatska
Željko Rački
; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku Fakultet za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti Osijek, Hrvatska
Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between the self-assessment and the peer assessment of public speaking confidence and some features of the public speaking quality of the future primary school teachers. In this study the speech fluency, richness of vocabulary, speaker’s clarity and speech intelligibility, as well as the use of the standard language in speaking, were used as measures of communicative and linguistic competence in the sample of 62 students of Teacher Studies University. The regression analyses presented in the paper suggested a statistically significant relationships between the consensually and self-assessed public speaking confidence, and measured features of speaking quality, as well as the students' subject or material preparedness for teaching, when it is expressed as the students' grade point average. The results supported differentiation between the features of speech and public speaking confidence, as well as pointed to the present need to offer the future teachers the support in the development of positive public speaking confidence, and a greater speaking quality.
Keywords
public speaking confidence; communicative competence; qualities of teachers; rhetoric; public speaking anxiety
Hrčak ID:
193884
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Publication date:
30.6.2017.
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