چکیده (انگلیسی):

Students were trained to perceive filled pauses (FP) as a bad speech habit. In a series of classroom
sensitivity training activities, followed by students being rewarded to observe twenty minutes of live
television from the public media, no differences between male and female Business Communication
students was revealed. The practice of teaching students to regard FP as a “bad” speech habit was
supported by the literature. Male and female students learned to recognize FP they heard
professional and non-professional speakers make