Study X of the basic communication course at two-and four-year US colleges and universities: Revisiting trends and considering new challenges

SP Morreale, SA Myers, TR Wang… - Communication …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Continuing a tradition dating back to 1968, this tenth study in a longitudinal series of surveys
of the basic communication course has two goals:(a) to provide descriptive information …

Doing what we do best: Advancing business communication instruction into the future with an agenda for training and development

SS Frei, KK Stephens… - Business and Professional …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Instruction about teaching business communication skills has been a long-established
tradition in the communication discipline. Recent trends in teaching communication training …

Trends in the introductory communication course from 1956 to 2016: A systematic review of results from 11 national survey studies

SP Morreale - Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2020 - search.informit.org
Researchers have conducted surveys of the introductory communication course for more
than 60 years, starting with two seminal studies in 1956 and 1965, followed by a series of …

“Imagine all the people”: imagined interactions in virtual reality when public speaking

LE LeFebvre, L LeFebvre… - … Cognition and Personality, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores the relationship between public speaking anxiety (PSA) and Imaginary
Interactions (IIs). Participants (N= 17) were recruited from the multi-section departmental …

Mapping research directions in the introductory communication course: A meta-synthesis of published scholarship

LB Anderson, A Jones-Bodie… - Journal of Communication …, 2021 - search.informit.org
The introductory communication course has a history of producing meaningful scholarship
that shapes teaching and learning at institutions of higher education around the world. The …

Exploring eye contact in virtual environments: The Compositor Mirror Tool, areas of interest, and public speaking competency

L LeFebvre, LE LeFebvre, M Allen - Communication Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Eye contact is considered a quintessential aspect of a speaker's delivery when interacting
with an audience. This exploratory study investigated a specific area of interest (AOI) …

Metasynthesis in communication research: synthesizing the past to aid the future

LE LeFebvre, L LeFebvre - Communication Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We conducted a comprehensive content analysis of Communication Education in order to
determine the type of article and its subsequent methodology (if an original article) in an …

A curricular view of communication course offerings of National Communication Association department members

SA Myers, AK Goodboy, SM Kromka… - Communication …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was to continue the trend of identifying the course offerings of
National Communication Association (NCA) department members started by Wardrope …

Communication education scholarship: a reclamation for the future

L LeFebvre, WM Keith - Communication Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
I do not suppose that the younger generation—to talk like a grandpa for a few minutes—can
realize how great a change has come over us. Any time back of twenty-five years ago each …

Creating Equitable and Inclusive Basic Course Classrooms: A Response Essay

K Ruiz-Mesa… - Basic Communication …, 2023 - ecommons.udayton.edu
Abstract In 1992, Jo Sprague challenged communication educators to think more critically
about how we teach and what we include in our communication curriculum. In the decades …