The Relationship between Immediacy and Learning in Instructional Communication

• In Event: The State of Instructional Communication Research and Theory: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We Need to Go

Abstract

Presenters will review this extensive body of literature on the critical relationship between nonverbal immediacy and student learning, discuss measurement of immediacy, and provide perspective on how prior research should direct research and theory building in instructional communication.

Authors

• Paul Witt, Texas Christian University

• Paul Schrodt, Texas Christian University

• Paul Turman, South Dakota Board of Regents