TEACHING FUTURE PROFESSIONALS TO OVERCOME NERVOUSNESS DURING PUBLIC SPEAKING
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https://doi.org/10.17770/bsm.v5i10.8309Keywords:
future professionals, overcoming nervousness, psychological readiness, public speaking, teaching methods, training programmeAbstract
The article touches upon the results of the study of the methods of teaching the future professionals to overcome public speaking fear. The reasons of public speaking fear have been analysed.
The concrete steps of overcoming the fear of public speaking on the grounds of the principles and rules of successful individual’s activity of speaking on a subject to a group of people have been analysed taking into consideration the aspects of the special organised training aimed at the intellectual and psychological readiness for public speaking of the future professionals
The psychological peculiarities of the usage of the author’s programme on psychological readiness for public speaking (programme) based on the problem-learning training in the conditions of the higher educational establishment, which directly influences the level of the professional communicative competence of the future professionals, have been presented. The programme has been worked out taking into our consideration the aspects of public speaking overcoming fear is a common form of anxiety.
The results of the empirical investigation of the author's programme on forming and developing psychological readiness of the future professionals have been revealed.
The practical recommendations on the forming process of the professional psychological readiness as the component of professional competence of the future professionals for public speaking have been suggested.
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