a qualitative and quantitative study of the relationship between interpersonalcommunication skills and successful teaching

Today, establishing any productive professional relationship stands in the need of developingproper interpersonal communication skills. since teaching is amongst those professions that requiresremarkable interpersonal skills, the current research was an attempt to shed light on those components ofinterpersonal communication skills which have direct role in success of teaching. to this aim, a mixedmethod design was employed to investigate quantitatively the relationship between these skills andsuccessful teaching and qualitatively portray a conceptual framework that actualizes this relationship.therefore, 12 teachers and 100 students were selected conveniently and purposefully to fill in the blanksof two adopted questionnaires. the results of quantitative analysis showed that there is positiverelationship between interpersonal communication skills and teaching success with coefficient of r =0.473.t results of qualitative analysis gave birth to a conceptual framework which believes in, an at leasthypothetical, relationship between components of interpersonal communication skills and effectiveteaching. these findings, rather than having implications for teachers, teacher trainers and researcher,shed lights on the way of future researchers in this area.