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Instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders learning when learners’ prior knowledge is low

This study investigated the influence of instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior and nonexpressive nonverbal behavior in video lectures on students’ learning performance and affective experience. We conducted two rounds of experiments using the same materials and procedures, the only difference b...

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Autores principales: Wang, Mengke, Chen, Zengzhao, Shi, Yawen, Wang, Zhuo, Xiang, Chengguan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9437513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36059729
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.810451
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author Wang, Mengke
Chen, Zengzhao
Shi, Yawen
Wang, Zhuo
Xiang, Chengguan
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Chen, Zengzhao
Shi, Yawen
Wang, Zhuo
Xiang, Chengguan
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description This study investigated the influence of instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior and nonexpressive nonverbal behavior in video lectures on students’ learning performance and affective experience. We conducted two rounds of experiments using the same materials and procedures, the only difference being the participants. In each round of experiments, participants were randomly assigned to expressive condition or nonexpressive condition. 227 rural primary school sixth-graders took part in experiment 1, participants in expressive condition had better affective experiences and perceived tasks as less difficult, but had lower learning performance than participants in nonexpressive condition. 175 sixth-graders from urban primary schools participated in experiment 2. The results showed that instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior also improved students’ affective experience and reduced students’ perception of task difficulty, but there was no significant difference in learning performance between the two groups. Comparing the pretest scores of students in the two experiments, it was found that the pretest scores of participants in experiment 2 were higher than those in experiment 1. Overall, instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior can improve students’ affective experience and reduce their perception of task difficulty. However, when students’ prior knowledge is relatively low, instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders students’ learning performance. We suggest that teachers adopt expressive nonverbal behavior when lecturing because it is beneficial to maintain students’ long-term interest in learning. However, it should be noted that the difficulty of learning material should be determined by students’ prior knowledge.
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spelling pubmed-94375132022-09-03 Instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders learning when learners’ prior knowledge is low Wang, Mengke Chen, Zengzhao Shi, Yawen Wang, Zhuo Xiang, Chengguan Front Psychol Psychology This study investigated the influence of instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior and nonexpressive nonverbal behavior in video lectures on students’ learning performance and affective experience. We conducted two rounds of experiments using the same materials and procedures, the only difference being the participants. In each round of experiments, participants were randomly assigned to expressive condition or nonexpressive condition. 227 rural primary school sixth-graders took part in experiment 1, participants in expressive condition had better affective experiences and perceived tasks as less difficult, but had lower learning performance than participants in nonexpressive condition. 175 sixth-graders from urban primary schools participated in experiment 2. The results showed that instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior also improved students’ affective experience and reduced students’ perception of task difficulty, but there was no significant difference in learning performance between the two groups. Comparing the pretest scores of students in the two experiments, it was found that the pretest scores of participants in experiment 2 were higher than those in experiment 1. Overall, instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior can improve students’ affective experience and reduce their perception of task difficulty. However, when students’ prior knowledge is relatively low, instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders students’ learning performance. We suggest that teachers adopt expressive nonverbal behavior when lecturing because it is beneficial to maintain students’ long-term interest in learning. However, it should be noted that the difficulty of learning material should be determined by students’ prior knowledge. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9437513/ /pubmed/36059729 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.810451 Text en Copyright © 2022 Wang, Shi, Wang, Xiang and Chen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Wang, Mengke
Chen, Zengzhao
Shi, Yawen
Wang, Zhuo
Xiang, Chengguan
Instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders learning when learners’ prior knowledge is low
title Instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders learning when learners’ prior knowledge is low
title_full Instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders learning when learners’ prior knowledge is low
title_fullStr Instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders learning when learners’ prior knowledge is low
title_full_unstemmed Instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders learning when learners’ prior knowledge is low
title_short Instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders learning when learners’ prior knowledge is low
title_sort instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders learning when learners’ prior knowledge is low
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9437513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36059729
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.810451
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