This paper researched persuasive tactics used by college age females on college age males. Previous evidence indicates that nonverbal persuasion is more effective than verbal persuasion. The topics explored in previous research on persuasion consisted of physical attractiveness, indirect knowledge of influence, tactics used by children and college…

This seventh-grade lesson plan asks students (working in teams) to create a multimedia advertising campaign on a current controversial issue. The lesson plan states that team members are not to apply any dialogue (either written or verbal) to any part of their presentation so that they may emulate the non-verbal, image only process that Martin…

This paper presents a review of the literature on impression formation in face-to-face (FtF) and computer-mediated communication (CMC) and provides impression management recommendations for CMC users in a variety of environments. The first section provides an introduction to impression formation. Factors affecting impression formation in FtF and…

Multilevel visual models can make teaching and learning theories more easily understood. The idea of graphic visualizationas developed in this model utilizes three stages of abstract concept formation dealing with concrete visualization, abstract visualization, and abstract generalization, which would provide the learner with an intuitive grasp of…

Emphasizes the integral relationship of language, communication, and culture. (RL)

Preschool children in a free-play situation experienced one of two training sequences: saying then doing, or doing then saying. The effect of training on the development of a correspondence between children's verbal and nonverbal behaviors was examined. The say-do sequence produced higher levels of correspondence. (ST)

First-grade boys (N=260) were classified according to response style on a continuum of reflectivity-impulsivity using Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test. For all groups, performances were poorest under reward conditions and better under the punishment and reward plus punishment conditions. (ST)

An introduction to linguistics, structuralism, and semiology, with special emphasis on how these fields affect and can be applied in the study of cinema. The extensive bibliography includes books and articles in five languages. (CH)

Speaking and listening should be taught as related activities. (DD)

Nonverbal cues which enthnographic analysis suggested were central to communicating personal warmth to Indian and Eskimo adolescents did produce significant changes on intelligence test performance. (Author/KM)

Author concludes that although specific movement patterns and postures change from one setting to another, the same general kinds of motions are used to serve or support the major pedagogical functions in open and self-contained situations. (Author/CB)

Article describes how to use deliberate nonverbal methods of communication for better learning experiences. (Author/RK)

Group and single viewers were studied; results showed that group viewers exhibited a large number and variety of verbal and nonverbal, targeted and (probably) nontargeted modeling behaviors; single viewers much fewer.'' (Author)