The Relationship Between Selected Immediacy Behaviors and Cognitive Learning: Virginia P. Richmond, Joan S. Gorham, and James C. Mccroskey

LEARNING, particularly that which takes place in the traditionalclassroom setting, is an interactional process. Although curriculardecisions, materials development, the organization of lectures, and the like focus primarily on the teacher's transmission of content-and student evaluation on comprehension and retention of that content-there is little disagreement that interpersonal perceptions and communicative relationships between teachers and students are crucial to the teachinglearning process.