Anxiety Observation

One of the first key elements that needed to be noted were the emotions and feelings of the participants before the time of their presentation. During this time two of the students didn’t seem to notice a lot of changes in feelings towards the speech rather that general anxiety. When it came to two of the scholar’s emotions such as regret and sorrow began to race through their minds. It got to the point that they were all thinking about dropping the course to prevent from speaking out loud. The students were very serious at this point and after doing follow up research it turns out that they also suffer from sever speech anxiety, which could have been a key contributor to these thoughts. And lastly, the last student who was asked how they felt …show more content…
In the beginning of all the speeches the students started off with very low speaking qualities. When talking about vocal patterns in the students there were changes in pitch and vocal patterns such as how high and how low they begin speaking. This was interesting because all of the students distributed this trait upon beginning the speeches. The three students who suffers from anxiety were distributing some obvious signs of stress. For example, one of the students began stuttering when speaking, the arms were folded by the sides where gestures couldn’t be seen, and eye contact wasn’t met with the audience. The eye contact part of the speech was notable with the rest of the severe anxiety tri but as they kept speaking the eye contact gradually began to increase. Something else significant to point out was the nervous tensions and constant movements of all the students speaking on their topics that began to die down about 3mins into their speech. At the end the students were asked how they felt about the project and how they felt now that it was over. The sever anxiety students felt a large amount of released stress and began filling a lot better as soon as they were finished. The appearance on their face were a lot less tensed, and more lively. The one kid who zoned out during the speech preparation was also a lot calmer even though before, even though they didn’t put that much effort into the speech