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Winter, Janet K.; Neal, Joan C.; Waner, Karen K. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2001
Offers five recommendations for teachers or facilitators of team communication: (1) students should avoid groupthink; (2) offer students methods for reaching agreement in a timely manner; (3) vary subjects of group writing assignments; (4) encourage all students to be active participants; and (5) emphasize the importance of good writing skills to…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Group Dynamics
Beebe, Steven A.; Webb, Marsha Short – 1990
This 43-item selected, annotated bibliography on cohesiveness and interpersonal attraction includes books, journal articles and conference papers published between 1953 and 1990. The bibliography is in two parts. The first part consists of key sources, most of which have extensive bibliographies or lists of references. The second part consists of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Family Communication
Davis, Kevin – 1988
In this study comparing peer group conversation with conversation in other settings, five college freshmen were observed and taped in the 12th week of the semester during a group discussion about their own writing. Four types of conversational moves were tallied: structural comments, solicitations, responses, and reactions. Comparison of these…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Freshman Composition, Group Discussion
West, Jane; Oldfather, Penny – 1996
Children have much to teach educators about the kinds of group work that enhance their social, emotional, and cognitive development. Using children's own words, this playlet juxtaposes third-grade and fifth/sixth grade views of how group work helps and hinders their school experiences in literacy learning. Students in both age groups experienced…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Research, Elementary Education
Allen, Jerry L.; And Others – 1985
Research has shown that communication apprehension (CA) has an impact on academic achievement over and beyond intelligence, type of performance-oriented class, language proficiency, and amount of verbal activity. A study explored the idea that this relationship is context-based by examining the impact of CA in the generalized contexts of small…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Apprehension

Fullerton, Olive – English Quarterly, 1995
Reports on a study that recorded conversations about math in elementary classrooms. Notes a wide range of functions that the students employed in their talk, and that group size and leadership greatly affected the way in which language was used. Observes a process of mirroring that offers an important way by which mathematics "register"…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
Bradley, Mimi – 1994
An ethnographic study explored how small groups of student readers interacted in a classroom over time to interpret short stories assigned by a teacher. For five weeks, eight sixth-grade volunteers met on consecutive Fridays in two separate face-to-face discussion groups to read, discuss, rewrite, and perform a short story as a play. Primary data…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography

Doughty, Catherine; Pica, Teresa – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Describes a study conducted to determine the effects of task type and participation pattern on language classroom interaction. Evidence suggests that tasks which require information exchange are crucial to conversational modification of classroom interaction and that group and dyad interaction patterns produce more modification than…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
Chismar, Constance – 1985
A study investigated how oral discourse affects the communicative process of teaching and learning and how that process influences and is influenced by the goals and expectations of college instructors and college students. Three college classes were observed for one semester. Data were collected in the form of field notes, cassette tapes of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, College Students
Bobel, Christina – 1988
Examining how students respond to gender-related issues, a study observed six classroom discussions of Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication, an introductory level college course which integrated gender issues. Four different classes, each consisting of 25-30 male and female students averaging 18-20 years of age, participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Feminism, Group Dynamics
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with the following topics: (1) communication interaction pattern training, (2) the relationship between cognitive switching and the nonverbal form complexity of a televised newscast, (3) the behavioral repertoire…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research
Green, Judith L.; Smith, Deborah C. – 1982
Findings from 10 projects, sponsored by the National Institute of Education, which focused on teaching as a linguistic process, are examined in this paper, along with findings from related studies. The projects constitute first-generation indepth studies of selected classrooms and are discussed in relation to two aspects of the linguistics of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research