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Mia Corvino – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This autoethnography traces the ten-year journey of one teacher's interest in and exploration of the experiences in English classes of high-achieving quiet students. Named Quiet Intellects (QIs), these students rarely or do not speak during the many district- and curricula-mandated evaluative tasks in my district that demand their oral…
Descriptors: English, Language Teachers, High Achievement, Speech Communication
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Cardon, Peter; Okoro, Ephraim A.; Priest, Raigan; Patton, Greg – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2023
Communication apprehension can lead to professional challenges for individuals, teams, and organizations. This is the first study of communication apprehension that involved a randomized national survey of working adults in the United States and captured broad representation in terms of age, gender, race/ethnicity, managerial status, and other…
Descriptors: Adults, Employees, Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety
Al Amour, Musa – ProQuest LLC, 2018
As Internet technologies have grown, virtual employees have become a large part of many sectors of business. The problem is that virtual team members may have lower job satisfaction than counterparts in traditional roles and virtual workers may suffer from turnover. Transformational leadership is associated with higher employee job satisfaction…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Teamwork, Job Satisfaction, Leadership Styles
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Kesici, Ahmet – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2019
This study was conducted to determine the change in the sociability levels of high school students depending on the frequency of their using social media and to investigate their social media uses. It employed a mixed-methods research design using both quantitative and qualitative methods together. The sociability levels of 352 students studying…
Descriptors: Social Media, High School Students, Personality Traits, Extraversion Introversion
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Chew, S. Y.; Ng, L. L. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
Recognising that active involvement with the target language is important in learning a second language, this research compared the participation style of the language learners in different discussion settings; online and face-to-face. The personality (extroversion and introversion) and language proficiency (high-intermediate and low-intermediate)…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Language Proficiency, Student Participation, Second Language Learning
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
An analysis of data collected from 2347 users of English on their self-reported swearing behaviour in English revealed significant higher values for the 1159 native English (L1) users than for the 1165 English foreign language (LX) users. Parallel analyses on the data of the L1 and LX users revealed that the interlocutor effect was slightly…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage