<p>This article is the result of a qualitative descriptive research with tools such as direct observation, recordings and interviews, developed at the Industrial Technical Educational Institution of the municipality of Turmequé, Boyacá, in order to discuss possible Events of stage fright present in 104 eleventh grade students of the institution, in which a specific problem that affects a large number of student population was identified. The fear experienced when students face a specific communicative situation affects the development of their academic activities, which doesn´t let them evolving successfully in social and working life. In the linguistic, paralinguistic and extra linguistic elements, the indicators which showed higher incidence were: fillers, hesitations, pauses, ignore the public and discomfort to the audience. It is significant to analyze this problem in its different causes, because although there are theoretical constructs about it, there are few applied researches in the school context.</p>