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This quantitative study explores relationships between instructors' nonverbal and verbal immediacy behaviors and students' motivation to learn at three institutions . Data were collected at a major research university , a small liberal arts university , and a community college . ANCOVA analyses indicated significant relationships between students' motivation to learn and both forms of immediacy for some of the institutions' results . Some slope differences of immediacy and students' motivation to learn were found between the major research university and community college . However , slope differences did not significantly differ between the institutions after a Bonferoni test was performed . The results are discussed and implications are given for instructors and administrators at different higher education institutions . Future researchers are encouraged to further investigate relationships between instructors' immediacy behaviors and students' motivation to learn at different Carnegie classification higher education institutions . |