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The Uses And Gratifications Of Dance Reality Television Shows, Heather M. Yuille
The Uses And Gratifications Of Dance Reality Television Shows, Heather M. Yuille
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The Uses and Gratifications of Dance Reality Shows
Competition based dance reality shows are a sub-category under the reality television show genre. One way to add to the growing body of research about reality television shows is to study each sub-category individually in terms of uses and gratifications theory. Therefore this research looked into the reasons why people watch dance reality shows. Since dance is an art form that has deep historic roots, has experienced highs and lows in terms of public perception and has experienced a strong resurgence recently within the realm of reality television, it proves to be …
Taiwanese Willingness To Communicate In English: Can Watching American Television Programs Help?, Yu-Ting Chien
Taiwanese Willingness To Communicate In English: Can Watching American Television Programs Help?, Yu-Ting Chien
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This study explored the relationship between Taiwanese audiences' use of American television programs and their willingness to communicate in English. Taiwanese participants filled out an online survey consisted of questions from uses and gratifications constructs and willingness to communicate constructs. In addition, different subtitle settings were also examined.
Results indicated that participants with high integrative motivation consuming information from American television programs, in addition, the setting of subtitles were associated with perceived communication competence, integrative motivation, language anxiety and social interaction motivation.