Students' Motives for Communicating with Their Instructors: Considering Instructor Socio-Communicative Style, Student Socio-Communicative Orientation, and Student Gender.

Myers, Scott A.; Martin, Matthew M.; Mottet, Timothy P.

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ERIC Number: EJ644723

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Publication Date: 2002

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Students' Motives for Communicating with Their Instructors: Considering Instructor Socio-Communicative Style, Student Socio-Communicative Orientation, and Student Gender.

Myers, Scott A.; Martin, Matthew M.; Mottet, Timothy P.

Communication Education, v51 n2 p121-33 Apr 2002

Explores how student motives to communicate with their instructors are influenced jointly by perceived instructor socio-communicative style and student socio-communicative orientation. Finds that female students communicate more for the functional motive than male students and male students communicate more for the relational and the sycophantic motives than female students. (SG)

Descriptors: Assertiveness, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research, Higher Education, Sex Differences, Student Motivation, Teacher Student Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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