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- Title
Effects of Teacher Verbal and Nonverbal Behaviors on Student Perceptions and Attitudes.
- Authors
Woolfolk, Robert L.; Woolfolk, Anita E.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study on the effects of teacher verbal and non verbal behaviors on student perceptions and attitudes. The present research sought to examine the effects of verbal and nonverbal dimensions of teacher behavior upon students' perceptions of that teacher's feelings and attitudes toward them. The setting was that of an experimental micro-lesson, a situation allowing for an optimum combination of experimental control and commonality with daily classroom experience. For each experimental condition, a group of 20 students were removed from their regular classrooms to participate in an experimental micro lesson. In a nearby vacant classroom these students were taught a vocabulary lesson which required them to listen to the teacher pronounce, spell, define, and use in two sentences, each of eight vocabulary words appropriate to their grade level. It is evident from the findings of this research that support was obtained for the hypothesis that students' perceptions of how positively a teacher responded toward them and their attraction toward her would increase as the number of positive channel inputs increased. As predicted, the all-positive teacher was rated most positive and most attractive.
- Subjects
NONVERBAL communication in education; VERBAL behavior; TEACHER attitudes; STUDENT attitudes; SENSORY perception; VOCABULARY education; CLASSROOMS
- Publication
American Educational Research Journal, 1974, Vol 11, Issue 3, p297
- ISSN
0002-8312
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1162208