The study looked at how a teacher's immediate behaviors affect students learning Spanish as a second language. They showed videos of teachers with different levels of verbal and nonverbal immediacy to students and found that students learned more when the teacher had low verbal immediacy. However, students felt more cared for and learned more when the teacher had high nonverbal immediacy. In general, nonverbal cues had a stronger impact on learning and caring than verbal cues in the Spanish classroom.