Instance 1 : A teacher is giving a lecture in a class of 10 students. Instance 2 : A teacher is giving a lecture in a class of 100 students. Assuming all the intervening variables to be the same in both the instances, which of the following is the most likely possibility from the perspective of communication ?
Interactivity of students with teacher will be higher in Instance 1 than Instance 2.
The phrase "assuming all the intervening variables to be the same" is the key to the question. Teacher, subject, duration, room and student ability are all held constant, so group size is the only variable left, and the answer must be whatever group size alone does to interactivity.
Interactivity is bounded by the teaching time available for exchange. If that time is fixed, a class of 10 gives each student roughly ten times the share of speaking opportunity that a class of 100 gives. So participation per student falls sharply as size rises.
Smaller groups also lower the psychological cost of speaking. In a class of 10 the teacher can recognise each student, notice a puzzled expression and invite a response; in a class of 100 individual feedback cues are lost in the mass, anonymity increases and hesitation to speak before a large audience rises. Communication in the large class drifts towards one-way transmission.
This is why the smaller the group, the closer classroom communication comes to interpersonal communication, and the larger it grows, the closer it comes to mass communication.
Hence interactivity of students with the teacher will be higher in Instance 1 than in Instance 2.
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Important Questions from Classroom Communication Process - Teaching
- Which of the following model of interaction analysis assumes that non-verbal communication can be more effective during interaction in classroom?
- Flander's Interaction Analysis Category System (FIACS) consists of 10 categories (from 1-10). Arrange the given descriptors/activity of each category in increasing order.
A. Asking questions
B. Lecture
C. Accepts or use of ideas of pupil
D. Pupil talk initiation
E. Praise or encouragement
Choose the correct answer from the options given below: Arrange interpersonal distances in communication from least to maximum :
(a) Social
(b) Personal
(c) Public
(d) Intimate
Code :Which of the following are the human channels of communication ?
(a) Family and friends
(b) Community fair and festivals
(c) News papers
(d) Mobile phones
Code :
- To ensure effective communication, it is important to
