From Barnyards to Learning Communities: Student Perceptions of Teachers' Immediacy Behaviors

Through this study the author represents an ethnographic portrayal of effective immediacy behaviors exhibited by teachers serving in large lecture courses. Four teachers were observed and 77 student interviews were conducted to investigate how immediacy behaviors related to student perceptions of the teacher and the course. Students notice immediacy behaviors in teachers rated as effective and notice a lack of immediacy behaviors in teachers rated as ineffective.