The relationship between tertiary-level students’ self-perceived presentation delivery and public speaking anxiety: A mixed-methods study     

Art Tsang 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2020,45(7):1060-1072

Abstract

Oral presentations are common in higher education worldwide. There is no shortage of evidence substantiating the association between oral presentations and anxiety. In the light of the close connection between self-perception and anxiety, and the under-researched nature of the delivery aspect of presentations (e.g. use of voice and body language), this study explored the relationship between tertiary-level learners’ (n?=?211) perceived delivery competence (23 areas) and their levels of public speaking anxiety. The data were collected via questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaire results revealed highly significant correlations between anxiety and 22 of these areas. The 23 areas overall also had a highly significant predictive power for anxiety levels, indicated by their explaining 45% of the variance. Follow-up in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with six participants to shed light on these quantitative findings. This article ends with an argument for greater emphasis on presentation delivery skills in higher education, which can potentially mitigate learners’ public speaking anxiety.  相似文献   

中国民间文艺学史上的流派问题(上)     

刘锡诚 《海南师范大学学报(社会科学版)》2004,17(2):62-64,83

在回顾和梳理20世纪中国民间文艺学史时，遇到的第一个问题是：是否存在着流派，存在着或存在过什么样的流派。笔者认为，1949年前的20世纪前期民间文艺学史上，不仅存在着流派，而且存在着不同的流派，在理论、观念、方法上，形成多元格局。这些流派是：北大歌谣研究会派、“古史辨”派神话学、文学人类学派、俗文学派、社会一民族学派、延安学派和民俗学派。它们以一定的社会文化环境为依存和发展的条件，分别有自己的代表人物、理论纲领和代表作。流派的存在和多元格局既促进了中国民间文艺学的本土化发展，又显示了中国民间文艺学的边缘性、跨学科性和不成熟性。  相似文献   

戏剧的新路——谈谈音乐剧的民族化问题     

曾泽刚 《湖南大众传媒职业技术学院学报》2002,(2)

国外音乐剧的火爆,使国内戏剧界一些人认为找到了一条振兴我国戏剧事业的新路。然而事与愿违,我国的原创音乐剧在红火一阵后也滑坡了。原因何在?音乐剧应该走与戏曲相结合的道路,重视民族化和本土化。  相似文献   

戏剧的新路--谈谈音乐剧的民族化问题     

曾泽刚 《湖南大众传媒职业技术学院学报》2002,2(2):37-39

国外音乐剧的火爆，使国内戏剧界一些人认为找到了一条振兴我国戏剧事业的新路。然而事与愿违，我国的原创音乐剧在红火一阵后也滑坡了。原因何在？音乐剧应该走与戏曲相结合的道路，重视民族化和本土化。  相似文献   

An application of Jones and James' perceived climate questionnaire in Australian higher educational institutions     

Art Lysons  Paul Ryder 《Higher Education》1989,18(6):697-705

Attempts to explore the role of organisational climate in organisational effectiveness have been hampered by inadequacies in existing climate measures (e.g. Cameron, 1978a, 1978b). This paper describes the application of Jones & James (1979) perceived climate measures on a sample of senior level Australian academics. Six climate factors were identified: organisational conflict and ambiguity; two leadership components (facilitation and supportiveness; directiveness); work group cooperation in policy committees and immediate workgroups; and organisational and professional esprit. The data reduction procedures used produced results which strongly confirmed Jones and James findings but involved only approximately one-third of their variables. This represents a more efficient measurement approach and furthers the opportunity for understanding and management of climates in effective organisational outcomes. Implications for future studies of senior managerial perceptions of climate are discussed.  相似文献   

唐代艺术与诗歌文化传播   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

马承五 《华中师范大学学报(人文社会科学版)》1999,(6)

唐代诗歌与艺术体现了文学与多种艺术形式的关系;艺术作品成为了唐诗传播的媒体;乐舞独特的传播效能,促进了诗与乐的交融;口头吟诵以语言符号为传媒,显示出鲜明的社会效应和丰富的传播信息;书法、铭刻使诗歌作为传播方式具有长久性和观赏性;绘画从视觉感知上发挥诗歌的传播功效;传奇是以大众文化的形式对诗歌起到特殊的传播作用  相似文献   

骋无穷之路 饮不竭之源——试论中国画基础教学中生活、创作、技巧的构置     

钟安 《阜阳师范学院学报(社会科学版)》2000,(4)

中国画基础教学在传授基本理论和基本技巧的同时,应注重对学生创作意识的培养,保护和发挥其自由个性,指导他们正确理解和处理生活与技巧的关系,深入生活,精研技能,调动思维,展开想象,创造出鲜活生动富有典型和表现力的艺术形象。总之,在实际教学过程中,对生活、技巧和创作诸要素进行合理的配置,调整好教学状态,是提高学生的综合素质,造就优秀的美术教育人才的重要步骤与条件。  相似文献   

Comparison of measures of organisational effectiveness in U.K. higher education     

Art Lysons  David Hatherly  David a. Mitchell 《Higher Education》1998,36(1):1-19

This paper is part of a program to study organisational effectiveness in higher educational institutions in the UK and Australia, and to compare the results with work conducted by Cameron (1981, 1986) in the USA. Cameron's work empirically derived and confirmed nine effectiveness dimensions and offered a typology of four institutional groups. In the UK, following surveys of the perceptions of senior academics and administrators concerning their own institutions, Lysons and Hatherly (1992, 1996) obtained results highly consistent with those of Cameron, and their analysis also supported a typology of four groups, namely classical redbrick universities, former polytechnics, former colleges of technology and 60's greenfield universities.An important further issue is the external validity of such effectiveness research particularly when discriminating between various categories of institutions. This paper uses data derived independently of the perceptual survey data to predict and confirm the taxonomy of four institutional groups already established in the prior UK research. These data come from the research ratings of the Universities Funding Council (UFC) and the Times Good University Guide. The Times data includes objective statistical data about each institution whilst the UFC ratings are based on the expert judgements of research assessment panels with representation from a range of institutions.The typology of four institutional groupings confirmed by the data analysed in this paper is consistent with the competing values explanations for organisational taxonomies (Quinn and Rohrbaugh 1983; Lysons 1993).  相似文献   

Rejoinder to D. Brent Edwards Jr. and His Interpretation of Our Position on Democratic Education and Social Justice     

Art Pearl  Tony Knight 《The Urban Review》2010,42(3):243-248

We review our involvement in social justice movements and projects over the past half-century that led to our understanding of importance of democracy. We contrast our understanding based on our extensive involvement in schools, our record of accomplishments from national and state legislation. e.g., “New Careers” projects, task forces in Australian state schools, to successful inclusion of the excluded into higher education, e.g.,. Upward Bound and HEP with Critical Pedagogy which at least from its most prominent advocates is mostly talk, little action. We contrast our testable democratic theory with clearly articulated principles with Critical Pedagogy efforts to impose “truth.”  相似文献   

《四库全书总目》小说家序文辩正     

孙振田  刘萍 《图书情报工作》2011,55(21):143-146

对《四库全书总目》小说家的序文存在的问题进行辩正,指出：张衡《西京赋》“小说九百,本自虞初”之“小说”专指《虞初周说》一种;以《虞初周说》为立论的基础不能成立;《汉志》小说家注云“依托也”的作品,其产生的时期在《汉志》那里并不清楚;不能靠《虞初周说》一家作品的篇数之多来推断小说的创作“特盛于虞初”,还应充分考虑从事小说创作的作者是否较多。  相似文献