Oral Communication Apprehension among English Senior Majors at Al-Quds Open University in Palestine

Communication is an essential part in languages. It is the purpose of learning a second or a foreign language. Oralcommunication is of the aspects that need to be developed among English learners. The study focused on investigatingthe factors of apprehension among English language students in Palestine. The Study aimed to investigate the degreeof oral communication apprehension among English senior majors at Al-Quds Open University in Palestine. In orderto achieve the study objectives, the researchers used the descriptive approach. Therefore, as to collect data, the studyused the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension Measurement (PRCAM) as the main tool of the study.PRCAM was distributed to a sample of (64) English language seniors at Al-Quds Open University in Palestine inRafah and Khan Younis branches. The major findings of the study revealed that the degree of oral communicationapprehension among English senior majors at Al-Quds Open University in Palestine was moderate and that there wasno any statistically significant difference at (a ≤ 0.05) in the oral communication apprehension among English seniormajors at Al-Quds Open University in Palestine due to gender (male or female).

Keywords:

Oral communication , apprehension , English majors