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Oral communication competency for teachers :
(1984)
What constitutes oral communication competency for teachers and how teachers should be assessed are often confusing issues. Therefore, the study presents a construct of oral communication competency and its implications ...
FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS A STORY: NARRATIVES OF OKLAHOMA TEACHERS ABOUT THE 2018 WALKOUT AND TEACHING IN OKLAHOMA
(2018-05-10)
Members of social movements create and maintain the meanings of that movement (Snow & Benford, 1992). Interviews with 49 teachers between September and November 2018 provide the data for this qualitative study. This ...
Cross-cultural adaptation and host environment: A study of international students in Japan.
(1998)
The study was designed based on Kim's comprehensive theory, which conceptualizes intercultural adaptation in terms of interaction/communication between adapting individuals and surrounding host environment.
An integrative approach to stories and storytelling: The expression of organizational commitment and social identity in retirement centers.
(1998)
Results of the content analysis validated the typology of five functions and showed that "proof by example" stories were told most frequently. A chi-square test revealed a significant relationship between membership status ...
No time for reason: Deliberation, status, and democracy in the modern society.
(2005)
Economic use of time (efficiency) and democracy are common features in many modern western societies. However, a strong egalitarian democracy requires equal participation in the social construction of meaning, reason and ...
Effects of message order on memory for a request for help /
(1984)
Langer and Abelson (1972) hypothesized that the frequency in compliance to a "legitimate" request for help would be greater when the opening phrase was "victim-oriented" and also to an "illegitimate" request when the opening ...
Organizational culture, identity, commitment, and citizenship behaviors: Antecedents, change over time, interrelationships, and potential of inoculation to bolster identity, commitment, and citizenship behaviors.
(2006)
This study examined the antecedents of several organizational variables (organizational culture, organizational identity, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), how they are linked ...
Stress, coping behavior, and social support in Japan and the United States.
(2007)
The purpose of this research is to examine cultural similarities and differences in perceptions of stress, coping behavior, and social support within the theoretical framework of two cultural factors (individualism/collectivism ...
The use of verbal statements by college-level communication instructors during classroom interactions with students rated acceptable or unacceptable classroom communicators.
(1980)
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether college instructors use verbal statements with students they perceive as acceptable classroom communicators that are different from the verbal statements they use with ...
A phenomenology of intercultural communication /
(1997)
The present dissertation has two major purposes. The first is to examine the origin of intercultural communication as an independent academic field cultivated in the US. In order to carry out this task, this study employs ...