A Survey on Levels of Self-esteem and Public Speaking Class Anxiety Using PSCAS of Senior High Students of Northern Cebu Colleges, Inc: A Glimpse After Two Years of Distance-Printed Modular Modality

The study was conducted with the primary goal to determine the level and relationship of self-esteem and public speaking anxiety of the students, most particularly the 85 grade-11 students of Northern Cebu Colleges, Inc. of both General Academic Strand and Humanities and Social Sciences Strand of the S.Y. 2022-2023. This will help teachers in identifying language anxiety among the students more particularly in speaking the language and develop practical and effective strategies for reducing foreign language speaking anxiety of the students. A descriptive - correlational method of research was utilized with the use of adapted questionnaires. The questionnaires were adapted from the ROSENBERG SELF-ESTEEM SCALE published by Rosenberg, M. (1965) and the Public Speaking Class Anxiety Scale (PSCAS) in the study of Kriangkrai Yaikhong & Siriluck Usaha (2012). The findings of the study revealed a negative correlation. As the self-esteem of the respondents get higher, their public speaking class anxiety gets lower and vice-versa. It was further revealed that male students tend to have higher level of self-esteem thus, has lower level of public speaking class anxiety. The study concluded that Student's low ability to speak in English language most particularly in school is due to lack of self-confidence and low selfesteem. Self-esteem directly affects students learning most particularly in the utilization of the English Language.