Reflection on Oral Skill Course

Reflection on the PRPSA Name: Institution: Date: REFLECTION ON THE PRPSA PRPSA is an abbreviation of personal reports of public speaking anxiety. This scale helps individuals to measure the level of competence and shun anxiety likely to be experienced before, during and after giving out a public speech. The importance of the scale is to assist the students in the public speaking course to range and improve their competence in communication skills. Moreover, it enhances the knowledge as well as attains efficiency in English language expression for the students pursuing public speaking. Find herein a detailed explanation and analysis of personal changes in the PRPSA scores and their entire purposes. These scores are very common in the public speaking class, as they help every student to put a certain range of their competence in the course. The PRPSA score contains thirty-four questions concerning the way an individual feels about delivering a speech to the public, and the way they behave. Frequent response to the thirty-four statements will help in noting improvement of competence or reduction of anxiety, through the changes in response. There is a personal evaluation when answering the question and honesty also helps in improvement. After responding to the statements and doing the calculations, the score was ninety-eight. Being the lowest score, there was so much dissatisfaction for someone aspiring to become a public speaker and thus more effort of improvement was mandatory. The second time of the trial brought slightly high results that totaled to ninety-nine. This process became more promising and so another test for confirmation became crucial in order to determine the real score. However, the third score brought similar results as the first one, indicating that the possible score was ninety-eight which was on the lower side. Thi...