Representations of students with different strategies of meaning transfer about the teacher in the educational process

Abstract

The author has studied peculiarities of students' representations with different strategies of meaning transfer on communication and professional skills of teachers influencing students' meaning-making. The research involved 156 students of the age of 18-21 at their BSc 1st -3rd years of different study areas. The results reveal that there are certain peculiarities in students' ideas on the expression of verbal and non-verbal characteristics of a teacher in the educational process with different strategies of semantic transfer. Students believe that expressive and verbal features of the teacher influence their learning outcomes and appropriation of professional meanings.