Strategies of Overcoming Fear of Speaking English Among the College Students of Notre Dame of Midsayap College
Harold Pinongpong
Discipline: Education
Abstract:
The study aimed to determine the students’ strategies in overcoming fear of speaking English as a second
language and the causes of their fear in speaking in speaking the English language. The study used descriptivequantitative research design. It is descriptive because it described the students’ strategies in overcoming fear of
speaking the English language. This is also quantitative for it used survey questionnaires to gather the needed
data. In order to answer the objectives of the study, the researchers made a questionnaire to gather pertinent data.
The researchers used stratified random sampling. A simple-random sampling technique is obtained to determine
the number of respondents. Out of 172 third-year Education students, the researchers chose randomly 10 students
for each major or program for a total of 68 Education students from Notre Dame of Midsayap College. In this
study, students have fear in speaking English as a second language and have identified their strategies in
overcoming fear of speaking English Language. Findings revealed that students lack of confidence when
speaking using English Language. Moreover, most students believed that evaluating how they speak would help
themovercome their fear in speaking to themselves and monitoring their errors and progress as a whole.
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