Year: 2020 | Month: September | Volume 9 | Issue 3
The Currency of Words: An Exploration of Motivational Prosody
Maitri Jain
Priti Dhawan
DOI:10.30954/2249-6637.03.2020.2
Abstract:
Prosody plays an important role in students’ social and academic achievement. To explore the impact of motivational prosody on teaching effectiveness, we conducted a quasi-experimental study on ninety-three undergraduate students. Teaching effectiveness was measured through students’ intrinsic motivation, task valuing, perceived choice, perceived competence, tension, effort expended, and creative problem solving. The prosodies investigated included autonomy-granting, controlling, and neutral prosodies. We used The Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (Deci & Ryan, 2005) and Passi-Usha Test for Creative Problem Solving (Passi & Kumar, 1996) for measuring the constructs. Statistical analysis along with the follow-up interviews revealed that the groups significantly differed in creative problem solving, with an effect size of 0.118. Moreover, the difference in scores for creative problem solving was due to differences in level of elaboration by participants, whereas the originality of responses was same across groups. This suggests that even though prosody has a role to play, a much more complex network of interconnected factors determines the student-teacher relationship.
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