The Teacher - Student Relationships As An Interpersonal Relationship

Communication Skills. Immediacy Behaviours. Study One. Communication Skill. Immediacy. Study One results. Study Two. Communication skills. Immediacy. Learning. Motivation. Study Two Results. Why referential skills and ego support is important?

The Teacher Student Relationships as an Interpersonal Relationship.

In these slides we will discuss and evaluate the previous research done on how to achieve a positive teacher and student relationship Previous research conducted has identified several variables that are related to positive learning: Communication Skills Immediacy Behaviours.

Communication Functions Questionnaire (CFQ) has been developed as an instrument to measure the value of communication skills The communication skills that were measured were these as you can see:.

Conversational skills referential skills ego supportive skills comforting skills.

The two factors have been divided into affectively oriented and non affectively oriented conversational skills referential skills ego supportive skills comforting skills conflict management narrative skills.

Both of these factors must be approached and applied within certain groups of students in order to achieve positive friendship. Taking into consideration, teacher must assess student complexities and evaluate which approach they should take.

Immediacy behaviours can help build a friendly environment non verbally, proceeding to evolve it with verbal immediacy, as well as commutation skills.

The study included 93 respondents, including 32 men and 61 women Participants had to indicate the importance of communication skills and Verbal and Nonverbal Immediacy behavior for learning.

Eight communication skills. Burleson and Samter's Communication Function Questionnaire. The importance of verbal and nonverbal immediacy behaviour for learning was measured by 8 items on Richmond et al's nonverbal immediacy scale and 15 items on Gorgom's verbal immediacy scale. 7 point scale.

Buleson ir Samter‘s Communication Function Questionnaire. Task: Assess the extent to which teachers use communication skills in the classroom. 7 point Likert scale.

Verbal immediacy Gorham Verbal Actuality Scale. Nonverbal immediacy Richmond et al.’s Nonverbal Immediacy Scale. Likert type scale from 0 to 4.