Factors Affecting Students' Performance In English Oral Presentations

Abstract

The researcher aims to investigate and expose several main factors affecting students’ performance in oral presentations. A quantitative method was used in this study whereby a set of online questionnaires has been designed and sent to the respondents. The four-point Likert Scale questionnaires was adopted and modified from previous research and divided into four main sections: psychological factor, presentation skill factor, surrounding factor and linguistic factor. There were 43 respondents from semester one students Session II 2021/2022 involved in this study. The analysis of data involved descriptive statistics, and independent t-tests. The results revealed that students’ oral presentations performances were moderately being affected by linguistic factor. While another 3 factors showed a combination of moderate and low level of mean value scores in terms of their effects on students’ oral presentations performance. As regards to the t-tests result, across gender, there were no significant differences observed on all the 4 variables. Some constructive remedies were also proposed with regards to the enhancement of students’ performance in oral presentations.

Keywords: affecting factors, students’ performance, oral presentations