Rola zachowań budujących bliskość interpersonalną w kształceniu językowym dorosłych
Immediacy Behaviors in Adult Foreign Language Teaching

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the role that teachers’ immediacy behaviors (i.e. behaviors aimed at building the atmosphere of interpersonal closeness between teachers and learners) play in adult foreign language education. Based on the literature review as well as the author’s own experience and observations, the article presents the positive impact of teachers’ immediacy behaviors on the effectiveness of the teaching process and the benefits the behaviors bring for both learners and teachers. It also offers a large selection of examples, including linguistic, paralinguistic and non-linguistic behaviors that teachers can use and develop in order to build a positive atmosphere in foreign language courses.

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