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Engineering Students' Communication Apprehension and Competence in Technical Oral Presentations

The demand for 21st century engineering graduates to be communicatively competent, particularly in English language, is increasing. Effective communication skills are one of the main competencies listed by the Malaysian Engineering Accreditation Council Policy with the expectation that all Malaysian...

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Main Authors: Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan, Sarjit, Kaur
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Language:English
Published: IGI Global 2016
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LB Theory and practice of education
LB2300 Higher Education
Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6771/1/Engineering%20Students%27%20Communication%20Apprehension%20and%20Competence%20in%20Technical%20Oral%20Presentations.pdf
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6771/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9970-0.ch020
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spelling my.ump.umpir.67712018-02-19T04:57:16Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6771/ Engineering Students' Communication Apprehension and Competence in Technical Oral Presentations Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan Sarjit, Kaur LB Theory and practice of education LB2300 Higher Education The demand for 21st century engineering graduates to be communicatively competent, particularly in English language, is increasing. Effective communication skills are one of the main competencies listed by the Malaysian Engineering Accreditation Council Policy with the expectation that all Malaysian engineering graduates will master it upon graduation. This involves skills in presenting information to technical and non technical audience through oral presentations. This chapter aims to examine engineering students' communication competence and their level of apprehension in delivering a technical oral presentation. Questionnaires, adapted from McCroskey's (1988) Self-Perceived Communication Competence and Richmond & McCroskey's (1988) Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety, were distributed to 193 final year Universiti Malaysia Pahang engineering students who were preparing for their Undergraduate Research presentation. The results of the study have direct and indirect implications to the teaching and learning of oral presentation skills among engineering undergraduates. IGI Global 2016 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6771/1/Engineering%20Students%27%20Communication%20Apprehension%20and%20Competence%20in%20Technical%20Oral%20Presentations.pdf Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan and Sarjit, Kaur (2016) Engineering Students' Communication Apprehension and Competence in Technical Oral Presentations. In: Handbook of Research on Effective Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Resolution. IGI Global, USA, pp. 371-383. ISBN 9781466699700 (Print); 9781466699717 (Online) http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9970-0.ch020 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9970-0.ch020
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LB2300 Higher Education
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LB2300 Higher Education
Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan
Sarjit, Kaur
Engineering Students' Communication Apprehension and Competence in Technical Oral Presentations
description The demand for 21st century engineering graduates to be communicatively competent, particularly in English language, is increasing. Effective communication skills are one of the main competencies listed by the Malaysian Engineering Accreditation Council Policy with the expectation that all Malaysian engineering graduates will master it upon graduation. This involves skills in presenting information to technical and non technical audience through oral presentations. This chapter aims to examine engineering students' communication competence and their level of apprehension in delivering a technical oral presentation. Questionnaires, adapted from McCroskey's (1988) Self-Perceived Communication Competence and Richmond & McCroskey's (1988) Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety, were distributed to 193 final year Universiti Malaysia Pahang engineering students who were preparing for their Undergraduate Research presentation. The results of the study have direct and indirect implications to the teaching and learning of oral presentation skills among engineering undergraduates.
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author Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan
Sarjit, Kaur
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Sarjit, Kaur
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title Engineering Students' Communication Apprehension and Competence in Technical Oral Presentations
title_short Engineering Students' Communication Apprehension and Competence in Technical Oral Presentations
title_full Engineering Students' Communication Apprehension and Competence in Technical Oral Presentations
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publisher IGI Global
publishDate 2016
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6771/1/Engineering%20Students%27%20Communication%20Apprehension%20and%20Competence%20in%20Technical%20Oral%20Presentations.pdf
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