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Exploring the Relationship Between Immediacy Behaviors and Student Motivation in Engineering Classrooms: Immediacy as a Cause of Motivation
<p>Instructor immediacy is an essential characteristic of effective instructors. Although instructional communication has done extensive research on the impact of immediacy behaviors on students, there is little available research observing immediacy behaviors as predictors of motivation on …
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Embodied montage : reconsidering immediacy in virtual reality
… space. This approach to the medium, a form of immediacy, effaces the material reality of the medium and can obscure the ways through which a medium can offer new forms of knowledge. Virtual reality's realism is a construct, and by acknowledging this, creators can push the medium to more …
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"Presentational Immediacy" in the Poetry of James Dickey
<p>The thesis explores the "presentational immediacy" of the poetry of James Dickey. "Presentational immediacy" is a phrase used by the poet, himself, to describe his attempt to provide a verbal equivalent of an intense experience. He also defines the phrase in stating that his aim is to effect …
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Experiential embodiment and human immediacy: Adorno’s negative affinity
This thesis argues for the continuing possibility of Adorno set against the backdrop of a post-modern proliferation of affects. A major theoretical contention is the concept of the subject: a sticking point within philosophy. The thesis takes this up and offers a new pathway without falling into …
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The Effects of Instructor Immediacy in Online Learning Environments
… such as online or blended learning. Instructor immediacy (the measure of the psychological distance which an instructor puts between himself and his students) received significant attention in the communication literature and several studies reported that instructor verbal and nonverbal …
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A Study of Verbal Immediacy in Army Simulator Maintenance Training
<p>A STUDY OF VERBAL IMMEDIACY IN ARMY SIMULATOR MAINTENANCE TRAINING Robin Leigh Fulkerson August 2004 48 pages Directed by: Sally Hastings, Judith Hoover, and George Musambira Department of Communication Western Kentucky University Rapid development of computer technology has encouraged the use …
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Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues
<p>Current research on immediacy and classroom communication primarily focuses on the impact of teacher behaviors on students, and does not focus on the dual influence of teachers and students. Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) have unique communication concerns and provide a context to explore …
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Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues
<p>Current research on immediacy and classroom communication primarily focuses on the impact of teacher behaviors on students, and does not focus on the dual influence of teachers and students. Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) have unique communication concerns and provide a context to explore …
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Narrative immediacy and first-person voice in contemporary American novels
… and describe more fully a literary effect I call immediacy. I employ the term immediacy to define narrative situations in which little durational gap exists between experience and narration and in which little ideological and emotional distance is communicated between the narrating persona and the …
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The Immediacy of Phenomenal Concepts and Immediate Implications for Physicalism
A number of recent objections to physicalism are based on the apparent gap between physical knowledge and phenomenal knowledge. In response, some physicalists accept the epistemic gap, but deny the inference from the epistemic gap to a metaphysical gap. One popular strategy is to argue that there …
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Mediating for Immediacy: Text, Performance, and Dramaturgy in Multimedia Shakespeare Editions
This dissertation examines digital multimedia Shakespeare editions, a group of seven projects that combine a complete Shakespeare text (plays or poetry) with a complete performance recording (audio or video). I argue that these projects constitute a new form of edition, which uses performance to …
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An Experimental Study of Instructor Immediacy in the Wimba Virtual Classroom
… include words conveyed, verbal and nonverbal immediacy cues, and the context of the communication. The immediacy component of social presence is most often defined as perceived psychological closeness which is created in part by nonverbal cues (e.g., smiling and using gestures) and verbal cues …
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Teaching strategies to improve student perceptions of academic success: an approach toward immediacy
… to measure the correlation between instructor immediacy values and students' perceptions of their success in communication classrooms in hopes to demonstrate that teaching behaviors and student success do in fact influence one another. The research question of this thesis was: Is there a …
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The immediacy of the artist's mark in shape computation : from visualization to representation
… and computer graphics still do not consider the immediacy of the artist's mark in drawing and painting. This research examines the canvas, or 2D picture plane, as the expressive and dynamic problem space of the artist who naturally reframes both the problem and the solution with each successive …
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The Relationship Between Nonverbal Immediacy and Therapeutic Alliance in Higher Education Client-Counselor Interactions
… between perceptions of client nonverbal immediacy and ratings of the therapeutic alliance. Additionally, the study provided an analysis comparing counselor and client ratings of both client nonverbal immediacy and the therapeutic alliance. Results indicated a significant relationship …
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The effects of sex and context on student's interpretation of teachers' high immediacy messages
Teacher immediacy has been positively associated with many desirable academic outcomes, including quality student-teacher relationships, student participation in the classroom and in extra-class interaction, and increased student learning. Thus, scholars have consistently encouraged educators to …
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Effect of Feedback Immediacy Across Various Time Periods Upon the Acquisition of Verbal Material
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The Impact of Instructor Immediacy on College Student Communication and Learning Outcomes in Saudi Arabia
… the effects of instructor verbal and nonverbal immediacy behaviours on students‘ communication (i.e., class participation) and learning outcomes (i.e., state motivation, communication satisfaction, affective learning, and cognitive learning). The study sampled 115 undergraduate students at King …
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