Abstract
“Immediacy” refers to actions or words that encourage a feeling of
physical or psychological closeness between people. Teachers who show
immediacy to their students tend to enhance likeliness, motivation,
confidence, enthusiasm and better learning achievement in students.
Immediacy is categorized in two types; non-verbal immediacy that
includes overt behaviors like smiling, gesturing, maintaining eye
contact, having relaxed body position and verbal immediacy refers to
calling students by name, using humor and encouraging student’s
responses in the class etc. The present study aims to investigate how
university students with high self-esteem and independent style of
learning, accept and like their teachers the most, and why and how
teachers become favorite ones? A survey questionnaire having 30 items
was used to collect students’ opinion about the immediacy
characteristics of their favorite teachers. Two hundred students from
three public and private universities were randomly selected as a sample
of the study. The major findings of the study were that the teachers who
used relaxed body posture, smiled at students, moved around the class
for closeness, spoke softly, used positive and frequent facial and body
expressions, encouraged students’ responses by appropriate nods, were
liked more by the students. They felt free to see them before and after
the class. They were not happy with the teachers who didn’t call them
with their names, were indifferent, and did not maintain an eye contact
with them.
Afifa Khanam. (2014) Effect of Immediacy on Teacher’s Acceptance in University Students, Journal of Arts and Social sciences, Volume 1, Issue 1.
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