"Vågar du prata nu?" : En studie om Svenska 3-elevers självskattning, attityder och talängslan inför muntliga framställningar och deras progression inom dessa områden.

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to investigate student progression in oral presentations. During almost an entire academic year, the students have read the course Swedish 3. To be able to examine their development, their self-efficacy, attitudes and speech anxiety ub these situations are measured. Both general and gender-related developments are intended to be discerned, while the results of a parallel study form part of the study. The second study is made by abother student and examines exactly the same thinds as in this study, altough students who have read the course Rhetoric during the academic year. Thanks to this, a comparative study was akso made possible between the students who have read the respective course, ans this gives an insight into the impact of the courses on the students and their self-efficacy, attitudes and the speech anxiety for oral presentations.  The results regarding all the Swedish 3-student's self-efficacy, attitudes and speech anxiety showed that the students developed maginally in all three areas. Otherwise, from a static perspective, the results also showed that student's mental speech anxiety, ehich inculdes factors such as shaking, palpitations and redness. The gender-related result showed that women develop more than men, but that men's level is more static and is at a higher level from the beginning regarding the self-efficacy, the attitudes and the speech anxiety. This result alsp showed that women's speech anxiety us significanlty higher than men's and it also showed than women prefer to talk about personal things to a greater extent than men, although borh men and women seem to prefer to talk about more impersonal things during the course. Finally, the comparative study between Swedish 3 and rhetorical students showed that the rhetoric students self-efficacy regarding discussions in the classroom and the speech anxiety develops most, while Swedish 3 students attitudes to oral representations develop more than the rhetoric students.