Effects of instructor speech rate on student affective learning, recall, and perceptions of nonverbal immediacy, credibility, and clarity

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 187-197

  Simonds, Brent K ^a   Meyer, Kevin R ^a   Quinlan, Margaret M ^b   Hunt, Stephen K ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective Learning; Clarity; Credibility; Immediacy; Instructional Communication; Recall; Speech Rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955903758     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824090600796401     Document Type: Article

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