Context Evaluation Form

Note: These open-ended questions are originally made by the researchers as their instrument to
the conduct of their Focus Group Discussions. The last five questions (6-10) are based on and
guided by the Typology of Strategies by Kondo & Yang (2004), which comprehensively assesses
students’ coping strategies for public speaking anxiety.

No. Items Essential Useful but not Not

Essential Essential

1. Do you consider yourself a *

bilingual speaker or a
multilingual speaker? If so,
what are the languages you
speak?

2. *
Do you have any past public
speaking experiences from
your previous school? What
type of performance do you
prefer? Monologue or
dialogue?

3. Based on the result of your *

PRPSA test, what do you think
is the factor or manifestation
of your anxiety?

4. How do you cope with the *

challenges brought about by
your public speaking anxiety
in online distance learning?
Can you cite at least three
strategies?

5. Do you think that your coping *

strategies are effective in
overcoming your public
speaking anxiety? Why or why
not?

6. How do you prepare yourself *

in facing your public speaking
anxiety in this new learning
modality? Can you cite
 significant differences in your
preparation from your past
public speaking experiences
during a face-to-face modality,
if you have encountered one?

7. *
How do you manage your
thoughts despite having public
speaking anxiety? Does the
new learning modality affect
your mental readiness for a
public speaking performance?

8. *
In what ways do you make
yourself at ease to lessen your
public speaking anxiety? What
comforting practices do you
usually do, especially in this
new learning modality?

9. Do you consult your friends, *

classmates, professors, etc. to
help you with your anxiety? In
what ways do they help you?

10. What do you think are the *

negative effects of your
anxiety as a student in an
online public speaking class?

For items 1&2, they are not that essential if we focus on the coping strategies but they are useful

for identifying the cause of public speaking anxiety because there is a possible that the speaker

has a language barrier. For the last item, it is also useful to identify the negative effects but again

we only focus on the coping strategies and the level of anxiety of public speaking students.