This book introduces Critical Language Awareness (CLA) Pedagogy as a robust and
research-grounded framework to engage and support students in critical examinations of …

Increasing demands for international solution selling call for a better understanding of the
interpersonal communication competence required of sales professionals. Accordingly, this …

In response to the demand for increased accountability within the university classroom, there
have been calls for a new generation of rubrics that effectively assess students' competence …

As a music teacher I often wondered if my thoughts about my own subject, and its perceived
isolation, were shared by other teachers as they considered their subjects. As head of …

Teaching listening skills in today's classroom environments is often misunderstood or
completely omitted. Each classroom contains a unique set of listening barriers that affect …

This eighth in a series of surveys of the basic communication course, begun in 1968, has as
its purpose to gather longitudinal and descriptive data on the nature of the course. The latest …

One of the problematic features of the “skills discourse” is the view that skills are
decontextualized bits of knowledge and disposition. Instead, how skills such as …

This study sought to gain insight into how faculty in other disciplines perceive
communication skills as well as to conduct a needs analysis that can help us to develop …

Similar to many courses in communication, oral communication is central to the learning
goals in the discipline of design. Design critiques, the primary communication activity in …

This study offers a systematic analysis of uncertainty in communication education by
examining communication goals and challenges in the context of collaborative creative …