The effect of instructor nonverbal immediacy behaviors and feedback sensitivity on hispanic students' affective learning outcomes in ninth-grade writing conferences

Communication Education

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-19

  Martin, Laura ^a   Mottet, Timothy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective learning; Feedback sensitivity; Hispanic students; Instructor nonverbal immediacy; Writing conferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650124754     PISSN: 03634523     EISSN: 14795795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03634523.2010.496868     Document Type: Article

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