Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Teaching as a Communication Process -- Chapter 2. Communicating with Instructional Objectives -- Chapter 3. Instructional Communication Strategies -- Chapter 4. Communication, Affect, and Student Needs -- Chapter 5. Learning Styles -- Chapter 6. Classroom Anxieties and Fears -- Chapter 7. Communication and Student Self-Concept -- Chapter 8. Instructional Assessment: Feedback, Grading, and Affect -- Chapter 9. Traditional and Mastery Learning Systems -- Chapter 10. Student Misbehavior and Classroom Management -- Chapter 11. Teacher Misbehaviors and Communication -- Chapter 12. Teacher Self-Concept and Communication -- Chapter 13. Increasing Classroom Affect Through Teacher Communication Style -- Chapter 14. Teacher Temperament in the Classroom -- Chapter 15. Teacher Communication: Performance and Burnout.

Communication, Affect, & Learning in the Classroom was original published by Virginia Richmond and Joan Gorham in 1992 and then updated a decade later by Virginia Richmond, Jason S. Wrench, and Joan Gorham in 2001. As we enter into the revision of the 3rd edition of the text, the basic content has not been drastically altered over the years. However, the research in Instructional Communication has clearly become more prominent and stronger. Probably the single most important development in the past two decades was the publication of the Handbook of Instructional Communication: Rhetorical and Relational Perspectives edited by Mottet et al. (2006). The purpose of the handbook was to synthesize the first three decades of research in instructional communication into a single volume that could help both researchers and instructors understand the value of communication in the instructional process.