The connection between the fear of public speaking and the student's engagement in the preparation of oral presentations

Abstract

The foundation of human relationships is communication, which is inevitable in today's world. Overcoming communication skills forms the basis of successful communication, moreover it is the recipient's ability to understand the message as it was imagined by the sender. During the education students face with presentations during which the fear of public speaking often occurs. This paper examines the factors that characterize the fear of public speaking, and their relation to communication skills. The study was conducted on a sample of 75 subjects, undergraduate and graduate students of the University, and it was realized through anonymous survey, which was set up on the social network of Facebook in the private group "University of Zadar". The results showed that the respondents during the oral presentations have a fear of public speaking to a large extent due to poor preparedness and lack of communication skills.