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Engineering Students’ Self-Perceived Communication Competence and Technical Presentation Anxiety: A Case Study

Engineering Students’ Self-Perceived Communication Competence and Technical Presentation Anxiety: A Case Study
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Author(s): Noor Raha Mohd Radzuan (Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia)and Sarjit Kaur (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 17
Source title: New Media Communication Skills for Engineers and IT Professionals: Trans-National and Trans-Cultural Demands
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Arun Patil (CQUniversity, Australia), Henk Eijkman (University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia)and Ena Bhattacharyya (Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0243-4.ch008

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Abstract

To work in a global context, engineering graduates must be competent professionally as well as be proficient communicators in English, the language widely used in international business (Lee, 2003). Increasingly, engineering graduates need to learn and develop skills about existing technical areas in order to enhance their competitiveness in today’s global marketplace. The Malaysian Engineering Accreditation Council Policy (EACP, 2005) has listed effective communication skills as one of the main competencies that all Malaysian engineering graduates need to master. One of the important communication skills that engineers must develop is the ability to communicate ideas and concepts to a group of people through formal and informal oral presentations. In line with the EAC policy, Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) has taken proactive steps in integrating oral English communication skills in their curriculum and co-curriculum activities. This chapter aims to examine the correlation of engineering students’ perceived communication competence and their level of apprehension in giving a technical presentation. Questionnaires, adapted from McCroskey’s (1988) Self-Perceived Communication Competence and Richmond & McCroskey’s (1985) Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety, were distributed to 140 final year UMP engineering undergraduates who were preparing for their Undergraduate Research Report presentation. The results of the study have direct and indirect implications to the teaching and learning of oral presentation skills to engineering undergraduates.

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