Abstract: The core of advancement and progress among people and nations is through effective communication and positive human behavior which should start in the classroom. However, communication styles among schools in the Philippines still remain empirically understudied. This study seeks to investigate the dominant communication styles of the faculty members of Iloilo State College of Fisheries, Dumangas Campus for the Academic Year 2015-2016 in terms of their gender, educational qualifications, length of service including their dominant communication styles as perceived by themselves, peers, and students. A quantitative method is used in the study while descriptive statistical treatment is employed. The study reveals that the dominant communication style among faculty members of the Iloilo State College of Fisheries - Dumangas Campus as perceived by self, peer and students is thinker. Furthermore, there is no significant difference in the communication styles of faculty members across gender, teaching experience and educational qualifications. This study finds that there are no significant differences in the evaluation of the communication styles demonstrated by the faculty members in terms of self and peer, peer and students, and self and students.
Keywords: communication style, self-perceived, peer-perceived, student-perceived.
Title: TEACHERS’ COMMUNICATION STYLES AND THEIR INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR IN THE CLASSROOM
Author: CYNTHIA D. MIRANDA
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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