Clarifying the relationship between teacher nonverbal immediacy and student cognitive learning: Affective learning as the central causal mediator

Communication Education

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 293-305

  Rodríguez, José I ^a   Plax, Timothy G ^a   Kearney, Patricia ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective learning; Cognitive learning; Nonverbal immediacy; Path analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040518848     PISSN: 03634523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03634529609379059     Document Type: Article

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