International Students’ Stress and Communication Competence and their Motives for Communicating with their Instructors

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Abstract

This study focused on international students’ reports of their anxiety, communication competence, and their motives for communicating with their instructors in the classroom. Communication with instructors was addressed by measuring five motives students have for communicating with their instructors: relational, functional, participation, excuse making, and sycophancy. International students’ state anxiety was negatively related to their motives of relational and participatory. International students’ communication competence was positively related to their motives of relational, functional, and participatory.

Author

• Kerry Byrnes, West Virginia University