Individuals communicate differently. The communication style is an indicator of a pattern of how a person organizes his interpersonal relationships. Similarly, people who are left-handed are more skillful in using their left hand than with their right hand thus; use their left hand in carrying out almost all activities. Hence, this study essentially investigated the communication styles of left handed students from the College of Teacher Education in the University. It made use of the descriptive research with 205 respondents who were identified using purposive sampling. The instrument used in the study is the Communication Style questionnaire. Results show that most of the left handed students have narrator communication style. Moreover, there is a significant difference in their communication styles when they are grouped according to campus, course and birth order. Left handed students are people-oriented thus display warm, friendly, gentle and cooperative disposition which make them value relationships over goals.
Communication styles, left handed students, descriptive research design, purposive sampling, narrator communication style, people-oriented
