Presents a study conducted to determine which barriers to effective communication are perceived as most serious by business communication students and to test for differences in the seriousness of the communication barriers based on various student characteristics. The sample consisted of 266 student registered in 10 sections of business…

Reports the findings of programmatic research on the perceived seriousness of communication barriers to learning across five pedagogies, which uncovered a generalized ordering of specific concerns as well as dimensionality of learning barriers. Suggests that pedagogical research bound by discipline or university may be more generalizable than…