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A 4 page discussion of the importance of oral communication and the steps a teacher can take to improve student’s abilities in this arena. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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school students, however, are sometimes less than proficient in oral communication. This can occur because of excessive shyness, a feeling of isolation, or a variety of factors. Fortunately,
teachers can implement numerous approaches to help these students overcome their fear of oral communication as well as their inherent inadequacies in that arena.
Sometimes a students reluctance to communicate is a matter of shyness. Even shyness, however, is not something that should be overlooked and used as an excuse to allow
a student to go through their high school years performing poorly when it comes to communication. Consider what that student will do when they enter the workplace. Shyness
can, in fact, be a very real problem. In extreme cases it is even considered a special need right alongside other special needs in regard to the importance of
addressing it in the classroom (Hofkins, 2004). Coplan and Arbeau (2008) provide one of the most well-rounded descriptions of shyness. They describe it as a condition characterized by
"wariness and anxiety in the face of social novelty and perceived social evaluation and is characterized by an approach-avoidance conflict in such situations" (377). Early intervention and prevention is
the key to minimizing or hopefully even abolishing a number of severe problems that very possibly could manifest later in life (Coplan and Arbeau, 2008). Shyness can, in
fact, be indicative of much deeper problems in the future. A number of researchers have examined shyness as it impacts
classroom performance. Wadman, Durkin and Conti-Ramsden (2008), for example, conducted a study that found that children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) were also often overly shy. Shyness and
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