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Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University                     Unit–14: Reciprocal Category System = RCS




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                             Unit–14: Reciprocal Category System = RCS







                       CONTENTS
                       Objectives

                       Introduction
                        14.1   Reciprocal Category System = RCS

                        14.2   Ober’s Encoding Procedure
                        14.3   Analysis and Decoding Procedure

                        14.4   Summary

                        14.5   Keywords
                        14.6   Review Questions

                        14.7   Further Readings

                   Objectives

                   After studying this unit, students will be able to:
                    •  Know the verbal behavior of Reciprocal category system.
                    •  Understand Ober’s Encoding Procedure.
                    •  Understand Analysis and Decoding Procedure.


                   Introduction

                   Several limitations of Flanders’s Ten Category System has been mentioned, which were reformed
                   and modified by other scholars in the Ten Category System. R. C. Ober has also a great contribution

                   towards this.  Ober (1968) modifi ed  Flander’s Ten Category System and introduced Reciprocal
                   Category System. In Ten Category System article is prepared by one sided encoding while it is
                   two-sided in the Inter-Process Communication. For example, five categories will be marked for

                   every three seconds while teacher is speaking. Also, five categories will be marked for the next

                   three seconds but students’ responses are not drafted. The teacher asks the students to sit. Six
                   categories are marked but students sit, this response is not drafted. Four categories are marked
                   when teacher asks a question, but students’ responses such as raising their hands. It is not drafted
                   in the encoding. Sometimes student asks a question or aspects clarification from the teacher, then

                   9 categories are marked but no category of teacher’s response is marked in the encoding. Two
                   categories are marked when teacher praises the students while students’ response towards this
                   praise is not drafted.
                   Interaction is done through face to face communication in class teaching. Self-initiation and responses
                   takes place simultaneously, but there is one sided drafting in the  Flander’s Analysis  System.





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