Publications

Publication details [#51965]

Hunt, Stephen K. and Joseph P. Mazer. 2008. The Effects of Instructor Use of Positive and Negative Slang on Student Motivation, Affective Learning, and Classroom Climate. Communication Research Reports 25 (1) : 44–55.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | communicative style | emotion | motivation | slang

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study reveals that teachers' use of positive slang positively affects classroom climate, student motivation, and affective learning. The inverse goes for the use of negative slang as informal classroom communicative style.