Cross Cultural Study of Immediacy Credibility and Learning in the U S and Kenya
The article that I choose was one that dealt with a study of immediacy, credibility and learning between students and teachers in the United States and the similarities and differences between those in Kenya. Immediacy, which originally defined by Mehrabian(1971), refers to behaviors of approach and avoidance related to one’s sense of liking(Johnson & Miller, 2002). The way immediacy is studied is usually through student reports of perceived occurrence of specified verbal and nonverbal behaviors (Johnson & Miller). How teachers can display verbal immediacy is by referring to a student by name, using humor in the classroom, listening to students’ opinions. ... The authors made some hypothesis in the beginning of the study. Hypothesis one was that consistent positive relationships exist between learning (and therefore negative relationships exist between learning loss) and professor/lecturer verbal immediacy, nonverbal immediacy, and credibility across U.S. ... The second hypothesis was that U.