[
    {
        "id": "osp-14286",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "The Impact of BigBlueButton vs. Skype on Communication Anxiety and Oral Communication Skills",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Mohammadzadeh",
                "given": "Hajar"
            },
            {
                "family": "Rahimpour",
                "given": "Sepideh"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/the-impact-of-bigbluebutton-vs-skype-on-communication-anxiety-and-oral-communication-skills",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2024
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Journal of Business, Communication and Technology",
        "volume": "3",
        "issue": "2",
        "page": "65-78",
        "DOI": "10.56632/bct.2024.3206",
        "publisher": "Gulf College",
        "abstract": "The present study, following a sequential mixed-methods design, aimed at examining whether internet-based applications, including Big-BlueButton and Skype online instruction differ in terms of communication anxiety and oral communication skills for EFL learners. A pool of 32 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL students participated in the quantitative phase of the study based on convenience sampling and a pool of nine students participated in the qualitative phase of the study based on purposive sampling. The results of one-way ANCOVA confirmed that there was a significant difference between the Skype group and the BigBlueBottom group in terms of communication anxiety and oral communication skills. Following inter-coder reliability, the most common themes (i.e., novel, challenging, motivating, less stressful, helpful, low internet speed, lack of equipment, and time-consuming) emerged from the students’ responses to the interview questions regarding the role of online learning on oral communication skills. Finally, some practical impli-cations were offered for EFL students and teachers, and some suggestions were made for conducting further studies."
    }
]