Impact of Teachers’ Communication Skills on Academic Achievement of Students at Secondary School Level
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59219/jheds.04.01.49Keywords:
Communication, Classroom Communication, Teachers’ Communication Skills, Academic Achievement, Khyber PakhtunkhwaAbstract
This study was carried out to find out the impact of teachers' communication skills on the academic achievement of students at the secondary school level. The nature of the study was descriptive, and a Quantitative research design was adopted to investigate the problem. The target population of the study was all the Secondary School Teachers and students of class 10th in Government (boys) Schools in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and the accessible population was all the 1315 SSTs and all the 18453 students of class 10th in the Government (boys) Schools in two districts of KP- Mardan and Nowshera. A self-developed closed-end questionnaire was used as an instrument for the collection of data from the respondents, teachers, and students. The average Reliability of the questionnaire was 0.98. The reliability coefficient confirmed that the instrument was highly reliable. The sample size (200 teachers and 400 students) was determined with the help of an online calculator. A simple random sampling technique was used for the selection of respondents from the accessible population. The data was quantified and tested using a regression test. Results of the regression test showed a positive but insignificant impact of teachers' communication skills on the academic achievement of students at the secondary school level. The findings of the study were that teachers use speaking and writing skills better than listening and body language skills, and the impact of teachers' communication skills on the academic achievement of students was positive but low and insignificant.
References
Aylor, B. (2003). The impact of sex, gender, and cognitive complexity on the perceived importance of teacher communication skills. Communication Studies, 54(4), 496-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510970309363306
Bambaeeroo, F., and Shokrpour, N. (2017). The impact of the teachers’ non-verbal communication on success in teaching, Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism, 5(2), 51-59.
Bee, S. B. (2012). The impact of teachers’ communication skills on teaching: Reflections of pre-service teachers on their communication strengths and weaknesses. Humanising language teaching, 14(1), 14-23. http://old.hltmag.co.uk/feb12/mart.htm
Bender, Y. (2005). The tactful teacher: Effective communication with parents, colleagues, and administrators. Nomad Press.
Bennet, A., & Bennet, D. (2007). Context: The shared knowledge Enigma. VINE, 37(1), 27-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/03055720710742007
Caliskan, N, & yasil, R (2005). “Body language in Education Process,” Gazi University, irsehir Education Faculty Journal, 6(1), PP. 1999-207
Cortright, S. M. (n.d.). 10 Tips to Effective & active listening skills. Power to Change. https://powertochange.com/students/people/listen/comment-page-3/
Ehindero, O. J., & Ajibade, Y. A. (2000). What our student say about how we teach. Ife J. Educ. Studies, 7(1), 1-9.
EMIS (2019) Annual Statistical Report Govt. Schools. Elementary & Secondary Education Department KP.
Fabunmi, M. (2004) The role of gender on secondary school students’ academic performance in Edo State, Nigeria. West African Journal of Education, 24(1), 90-93.
Fanuel, P. (2011). The benefits of education. London: Oxford University Press.
Fashiku, C. (2017). Effective communication: any role in classroom teaching – learning process in Nigerian schools? DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals). https://doaj.org/article/d3262819a89e45f29b82e3ee9f02bbe7
Frymier, A. B., & Houser, M. L. (2000). The teacher‐student relationship as an interpersonal relationship. Communication Education, 49(3), 207-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634520009379209
Ginott, H. (1972) Teacher and child: A book for parents and teachers. New York: Macmillan.
Glaze, A. (2014). Communication: The essence of leadership. Principal Connections, 18(2),79. https://www.oct.ca/-/media/PDF/Power_Of_Communication_EN.pdf)
Graham, E. E. (2010). Communication Research Measures II. In Routledge eBooks. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203871539
Guffy, M E., Loewy, D., (2011). Business communication process and product, seventh ed. Cengage Learning, Ohio.)
Hawking, N. (2005). Effective communication affects student achievement and retention. PubMed, 76(3), 234–236. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15732894
Kallan, R. (2015). Renovating your writing: Shaping ideas into clear, concise, and compelling messages. Routledge.
Kamal, M., & Bener, A. (2009). Factors contributing to school failure among school children in very fast developing Arabian Society. PubMed. https://doi.org/10.5001/omj.2009.42
Kelly, J. J. (2002). Nucleon charge and magnetization densities from Sachs form factors. Physical Review. C. Nuclear Physics/Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, 66(6). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.66.065203
Khan, A. (2017). Communication Skills of a Teacher and Its Role in the Development of the Students’ Academic Success. Journal of Education and Practice, 8(1), 18–21. http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1131770.pdf
Loss, J. (2000). The communications contract. The Internal Auditor, 57(6), 88.
McCarthy, M.R. and R. Carter (2001). Ten Criteria for a spoken Grammar in E. Hinkel and S. Fotos (eds). New perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
McConnell, P. B. (2003). Beginning Family Gog Training. Dog Best Friend Ltd. Black Ear.
McPheat, S. (2010). Effective Communication Skills. MTD Training & Ventus Publishing APS.
Morreale, S. P., Osborn, M. M., & Pearson, J. C. (2000). Why communication is important: A rationale for the centrality of the study of communication. Journal of the Association for Communication Administration, 29(1), 1–25.
Mustafa. G. (2012). Education Policy Analysis Report of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. New York: UNESCO.
Hornby, A. S. (2006). Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English.
Obilor, E. I., & Akpan, U. T. (2020). Construction and Validation of Basic Science Achievement Test for Junior Secondary Three (JS3) Students in Public Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom State. International Journal of Innovative Education Research, 8(4), 124-135.
Polk, J. A. (2006). Traits of effective teachers. Arts Education Policy Review, 107(4), 23-29.
Prozesky, R. D. (2000). Communication and effective teaching. Journal of Community Eye health. London, UK.
Raman, M., & Sharma, S. (2007). Technical Communication principles and Practice. Second ed. Oxford University Press, India.
Safir, S. (2017). The listening leader: The listening leader: Creating the conditions for equitable school transformation. John Wiley & Sons.
Seghedin, E. (2012). Communication–the main component of teaching competence. Procedia: Social & Behavioral Sciences, 69, 350–358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.11.420
Sword, R. (2020). Effective communication in the classroom: Skills for teachers. Message posted to https://www.Highspeedtraining.co.uk
UNESCO. (2009). Policy Guidelines on Inclusion in Education. Paris.
Wahyuni, A. (2018, January). The power of verbal and nonverbal communication in learning. In 1st International Conference on Intellectuals' Global Responsibility (ICIGR 2017) (pp. 80-83). Atlantis Press.
Wenbin. N. (2008). The advantages and disadvantages of written and spoken communication: New York, The McGraw. Hill.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Higher Education and Development Studies (JHEDS)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
