To expand the literature on rather new concept of student burnout, present study examined influence teacher immediacy and stroke variables English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ experience burnout. fulfill this aim, group 631 undergraduate EFL students from various universities in Iran answered questionnaires including Immediacy Behavior Scale, Student Stroke Maslach Burnout Inventory-St...

Background Though pedagogical artificial agents are expected to play a crucial role in the years come, earlier studies provide inconsistent results regarding their effect on learning. This might be because potential for exhibiting subtle nonverbal behaviours we know from human teachers has been untapped. What is more, there little evidence of processes underlying (either or artificial) learning...

The purposes of this research were two-fold: first, to see whether or not lecturers’ immediacy behaviors linearly related their students’ Willingness Communicate (WTC); second, determine which behavior (Verbal Nonverbal) predominantly impacted on WTC. To achieve the purposes, two types questionnaires utilized, 1) WTC and 2) immediacy. Later, participants asked choose 1–5 scales question item. T...

Feldman went on to point out that quality of service and immediacy will be important for next-generation mobile applications providing networked services, such as market monitoring, financial transactions, and real-time information broadcasting. The heterogeneity of the environment these applications must run on presents many challenges to developing these applications. The diversities in user ...

New developments are presented and discussed for the interactive display and separate measurement of frication and nasality in addition to voice quality. Different clinical problems require different therapeutic and quantitative approaches and these are ideally supported by appropriate combinations of speech pattern elements. Particular use has been made of the laryngograph signal in order to s...

Chapman's hypothesis that contextual constraints are less salient and stronger meaning constraints more salient for schizophrenics than for normals was tested, as was the hypothesis drawn from the work of Salzinger and of Cromwell and Dokecki that schizophrenics are overly constrained by immediate cues relative to distant ones. The Chapman hypothesis was supported only for disorganized schizoph...

This article applies the concept of classroom community to asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) by taking on the issue of how best to design and implement a course that fosters community among learners who are physically separated from each other. The following factors that can influence sense of community among distant learners are examined: student–instructor ratio, transactional distance, s...