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The Choice Is Yours: The Effects of Autonomy-Supportive Instruction on Students' Learning and Communication
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Baker, James P.; Goodboy, Alan K. – Communication Education, 2019
Guided by self-determination theory, we conducted a live lecture experiment in two 50-min college courses to manipulate autonomy-supportive instruction (i.e., the amount of choices and rationales offered to students). Participants were 201 undergraduate students who either attended a lecture where the instructor gave students choices over the…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Theories, Student Motivation, Lecture Method
Creative Drama: More Than Story Dramatization
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Stewig, John Warren – Communication Education, 1977
Suggests that creative drama, including story dramatization, must include components such as rhythmic movement, pantomime, story improvisation, minimal situations, and teaching-in-role in order to produce educational benefits from a cohesive learning sequence. (MH)
Descriptors: Creative Dramatics, Developmental Programs, Drama, Elementary Secondary Education
Speech Pedagogy beyond the Basics: A Study of Instructional Methods in the Advanced Public Speaking Course
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Levasseur, David; Dean, Kevin; Pfaff, Julie – Communication Education, 2004
Although the class in advanced public speaking is a mainstay of communication instruction, little scholarship has addressed the nature of expertise in public speaking or the instructional techniques by which it is imparted. The present study conducted in-depth interviews with 23 active college teachers of advanced public speaking, inquiring…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Class Activities, Public Speaking
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Beall, Melissa L.; Cook, Gary – Communication Education, 1977
Describes an activity designed to get beginning drama students to work with other classmates and to get students up in front of a class in a group situation. (MH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Drama, Group Dynamics
Beyond Dramatic Play
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Hendricks, Beverly Lusty – Communication Education, 1977
Defines "creative rehersal" as a semi-structured playing of a narrative thread in a spontaneous manner by a child or group of children and an adult in order to practive problem solving abilities and describes the interaction of a child and an adult in such a situation. (MH)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Developmental Programs, Dramatic Play, Elementary Secondary Education