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Padilla, Anne Hardie. "ESL: Teaching for Communication." TopSCHOLAR®, 1987. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1804.
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Although the field of English as a Second Language – ESL – is a relatively new field for study, it grows out of a long tradition of teaching foreign or second languages. However, even without formal instruction in a second language, people throughout history have been learning second – and sometimes third and fourth – languages for purposes of trade, business, politics, social acceptance and even survival.
Entering the last quarter of the twentieth century second or foreign language teachers had used three primary methods or approaches in their instruction: the Grammar-Translation method, the Audio-Lingual method, and the Cognitive Code approach. The extent to which any of these methods was successful was determined largely by the individual’s definition of success. In the world of the late 1970’s and the 1980’s, success in foreign or second language teaching has been defined in terms of the students’ ability to speak and understand – to use – the language for purposes of communication or interaction with native speakers of the target language, and to use it appropriately within a given context, at the end of a course of study.
In the last fifteen years many new methods and approaches have been introduced and tried in second language classrooms, methods and approaches for which the goal has been communicative competence. Among them are the Silent Way, Total Physical Response, Counseling Learning, Suggestopedia, the Notional-Functional or Communicative Language Teaching approach, and various approaches or methods which use dramatic techniques. Although there may be considerable differences from one method or approach to another, these communicative approaches do share a common core: they involve the whole person – intellectual, emotional and social; they recognize the importance of minimizing stress within the learning environment; and they emphasize the importance of using the language in order to attain communicative competence in that language.
One of these methods and one approach – Total Physical Response and Communicative Language Teaching – will be looked at in some detail in order to determine the underlying assumptions, particularly regarding learning and language theory; objectives and goals; syllabus; instructional materials; classroom activities; and the learner and teacher roles. Then a text which purports to reflect the method or approach will be briefly examined to determine the extent to which it does, in fact, reflect the method or approach.
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Dalen, Jan van. "Communication skills teaching, testing and learning /." Maastricht : Maastricht : Universitaire Pers Maastricht ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 2001. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=7619.
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Newbold, Curtis Robert. "Teaching Creativity in Technical Communication Curricula." DigitalCommons@USU, 2008. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4.
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This thesis addresses the need to claim creativity as an essential component to our technical communication curricula as we prepare students for what their managers want. While many technical communication programs at universities across the country have recognized a need to teach skills beyond 'writing technically,' few, if any, have addressed or 'claimed' a concept such as creativity that helps build these skills. I argue that creativity is what managers are looking for and what technical communication programs are already implementing. Claiming this concept will help us further define a discipline that is becoming much richer and help students develop an understanding of what they will be expected to do. Furthermore, this thesis examines a creative process whereby technical communicators can learn and practice creative abilities. Ultimately, the present study examines four pedagogical theories to consider for the implementation of creativity into the technical communication curricula.
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Fleetwood, Jane R. "Teaching Communication Skills through Video Tape Productions." UNF Digital Commons, 1988. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/690.
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Motivating students to learn and practice effective communication skills has always been a dilemma for teachers of all grade levels. Video cameras and camcorders are now being used as teaching tools in many schools to not only motivate students to use and practice a variety of skills, but to stimulate their creativity, as well. Loretto Elementary School in
Jacksonville, Florida, is developing a program which incorporates student-written video productions into its existing curriculum. Loretta's innovative program is a direct result of a 10-rninute informational video tape production done by graduate student Jane Fleetwood and Continental Cablevision, a local cable television company. This paper describes the step-by-step procedures involved in that production, the business education partnership which exists between the school and the cable company, and the school's plans for making video productions as integral part of its curriculum.
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Kappeler, Warren. "Communication habits for the pilgrim Church : Vatican teaching on media and social communication." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102834.
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This study examines the communication habits of the pilgrim Church with focus upon Vatican documents on mass media and social communication. Attention is given to the historical context of Vatican Councils I and II. As the Church engaged modernity, it shifted ecclesial organization from closed to become open. This study documents the importance of sociology, especially communication theory and cybernetics for Catholicism today.<br>It is argued that the pivotal event in the Roman Catholic Church's self-exploration for self-awareness and realization was the Second Vatican Council. At that Council, the Church re-examined itself and its own identity to come to grips with the modern world. The teachings of the Council were concerned mainly with the pastoral dimension of the Church and its self-realization. Reflexivity is an important theme of this study as it speaks about understanding the very identity of the modern Church. It is explained that the process of communication within the Roman Catholic Church is itself linked to this insight of reflexivity.<br>The first chapter shows that behind the pilgrim Church lies an emerging vision of the threefold offices of priest, prophet, and king. The history behind the Roman Catholic Church's transition from the First to the Second Vatican Council is provided. John Henry Cardinal Newman influenced nineteenth-century Catholic theology with his own study of the threefold office. In chapter four we return to the threefold office and examine the contribution of John Paul II. It includes an analysis of how the politics of the magisterium shapes Catholic social teaching. Chapter two examines the text and context of the Second Vatican Council's pastoral decree "Inter Mirifica". Chapter three provides a documented history of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communication and its teachings. Chapter five develops major tenets of a critical analysis of the communication of the post-Vatican II Church: attention is given to the discursive aspects of religious authority, argumentation, bureaucratization, and market culture. Chapter six takes a step towards examining the pragmatics of contemporary Vatican teaching.<br>This study concludes that there are three basic sociological and theological aspects of the pilgrim Church. These include a ritual approach to communication, the generational experience of Catholics and their respective attitudes toward Church teaching, and the important link in the faith's praxis between reflexivity and forming habits of communication.
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Stojakovic, Jelena. "Teaching intercultural communication competence in the healthcare context." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06052009-204749.
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Haccius, Mark. "The use of frameworks in teaching tense /." Click here to view full-text, 2007. http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/ipp_collection/7/.
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Mathew, Nishi Mary. "The effect of electronic networking on preservice elementary teachers' science teaching self-efficacy and attitude towards science teaching /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Wernicke, Helga. "A study investigating the correlation between teaching assistants' communication apprehension in the college classroom and student perceptions of teaching assistant's communication apprehension." Online access for everyone, 2005. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2005/h%5Fwernicke%5F042905.pdf.
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Drew, Linda. "The experience of teaching in art, design and communication." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417492.
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Madida, Minenhle S. "Innovative communication protocols for teaching in rural secondary schools." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1782.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree, Masters of Communication Science in the Department of Communication Science at the University of Zululand, 2018.<br>The enhancement of the quality of education through the digitisation of the learning systems is a national priority in South Africa and beyond. Some academic institutions, both basic and higher level, have responded to this by adopting the use of ICT in their practice. However, the enormous digital divide between urban and rural areas has escalated with its negative effect on the schools. Most rural schools remain underdeveloped with a huge deficit in teaching and learning resources, while technological progressions continue at an unprecedented speed. These advancements in technology come with drastic changes in all spheres of life, particularly in the labour market. Thus, the need for preparing high school learners with relevant skills for the future, which mostly relies on ICT capabilities. This study, therefore, focuses on how the use of ICT in a rural classroom can help bring the learners to speed with the digital revolutions we are witnessing. The study adopts the Technology Acceptance Model as well as the Interactive Model to propose plausible solutions. The data were collected from 121 rural secondary school teachers in the King Cetshwayo District Municipality. The findings of the study revealed that the lack of ICT skills among teachers, and insufficient resources to support classroom experiences are key barriers to the effective use of innovative communication protocols, which include ICT in the rural classroom. This has policy implications for the department of higher education in terms of human resource development and the provision of appropriate logistics.
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Marks, Lori J. "Augmentative Communication." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3700.
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Baker, Jacqueline R. "Shall We Dance? Teaching Parents the Communication Dance to Enhance Generalized Communication in Their Children." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500157/.
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Children diagnosed with autism exhibit deficits in communication that impact their ability to control their immediate environment. Recent research on mand training has been criticized for producing a limited number of mand topographies over a long span of time with limited generalization to novel environments. There is a body of research, however, that successfully establishes larger repertoires. Training parents as change agents may mediate generalization by teaching under naturally maintaining contingencies. Additional effects of parent training may reduce parent reports of stress, increase favorable quality of parent-child interactions, and increase reports of parental self-efficacy. The current study evaluated the effects of a generalized training framework to teach parents how to target generalized mands and expand their child’s communicative topographies. The effects of the training were evaluated using a non-concurrent multiple baseline across participants and skills. Results indicated that parents were able to effectively teach their child to mand for a variety of items and events and to substantially increase the number of different mand topographies and expand the topographies the child emitted. Parents were observed to have higher overall confidence and lower overall stress following intervention. The current study builds on previous research on generalized teaching strategies for parents that are effective in teaching a variety of responses to the child.
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Lovgren, Laurie J. "Communication training in the organization : an overview." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9863.
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Li, Xiaorong. "Communicative Language Teaching in Current Chinese Colleges and Universities." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1297.
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Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been prioritized as the key instructional approach in colleges since the Chinese Ministry of Education issued a revised syllabus in 1999 that underlines college EFL students' communicative competence. The issuance of the syllabus was followed by a series of reforms on curricular designs and teaching methods. However, CLT has encountered great resistance. College teachers and learners are constrained by socio-cultural influences such as the perceptions of teachers' roles and ways of learning and teaching (Hu, 2002; Rao, 1996). Although some teachers have shown positive attitudes towards CLT, in general they have failed to practice it communicatively. This thesis discusses solutions and provides suggestions after delineating the difficulties these teachers and learners have encountered particularly. Taking into consideration China's increased global impact and internationallycollaborating programs that are currently conducted in many universities, this thesis highlights that CLT is an applicable approach to improve students' communicative competence.
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Postica, Adina M. "Changing Focus: From Second / Foreign Language Teaching to Communication Learning." See Full Text at OhioLINK ETD Center (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing), 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?toledo1147275010.
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Lee, Hwee Hoon. "Information and communication technology in teaching : Singapore University teachers' perspectives." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/7547.
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The introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) into education has received both positive and negative responses from the stakeholders, namely, the school administrators, faculty and learners, and research into online teaching and learning has also shown both benefits and limitations offered by ICT. Indeed, resistance to ICT use is common among teachers. Studies have found that teacher beliefs about teaching and learning play a big part in teachers’ adoption of ICT use in their teaching. Similarly, contextual factors have been found to affect teachers’ response to ICT use. The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between teachers’ understandings of teaching and learning, their understandings of ICT affordances and their use of ICT in their teaching. The area of teacher beliefs is therefore pertinent to the study. Teacher knowledge and teacher learning are discussed in relation to conceptions of teaching and ICT use. Contextual factors are also examined to complete the investigation. Informants are sampled from among engineering and non-engineering faculty at a university in Singapore. Data are collected through interviews, and lexical choices and metaphors used by informants are examined for meaning. The themes are identified and analysed based on two metaphorical models of teaching, namely, Fox’s (1983) theories of teaching and Kember and Gow’s (1994) orientations to teaching. The findings are then presented and discussed in two parts: firstly, teachers’ understandings regarding teaching and learning and regarding ICT affordances, and their use of ICT in their teaching; and secondly, contextual factors that affect teachers’ decision to use ICT. The findings show, firstly, that face-to-face interaction, thinking and understanding, and the ‘right’ attitude are conceived by the engineering and non-engineering informants as the way that learning takes place. Secondly, the primary theories of teaching espoused by these teachers appear to be transfer and shaping theories. Thirdly, informants perceive ICT as a container, a place and a tool. These conceptions correspond to their teaching theories but only to an extent. Evident from the findings are tensions between beliefs and practice. Linked to informants’ understandings of teaching and learning and of ICT affordances is their perception of their roles and responsibilities when they use ICT in their teaching. Fourthly, informants generally perceive ICT as playing a complementary role in their teaching. They see the teacher and learner action as the two most essential elements for effective teaching and learning. From their emphasis on learner attitude and action, informants seem to value also the constructivist theory of learning. Contextual factors are also considered, as conditions can affect change in practice. These factors are found to include time, institutional support, and teacher and learner attitudes. In the discussion on how contextual variables interact with the pedagogical use of ICT, it is found that informants’ technological pedagogical knowledge needs to be developed and that support at policy level is needed to encourage teachers’ use of ICT. The implications of the findings and the contributions and limitations of the study are discussed in the concluding chapter. Also included in the final chapter are suggestions for future research. It is hoped that this study will help the education community understand teachers’ expectations and the classroom challenges they face as they work with ICT. The study can also help university administrators better meet teachers’ needs with regard to teaching using ICT.
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Lam, Wendy Yuen-Kwan. "Teaching strategy use for oral communication tasks to ESL learners." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/829/.
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This thesis investigates the effects of strategy training on ESL learners' strategy use and performance on oral communication tasks. Research into the teaching and learning of speaking in the ESL context is relatively neglected and strategy training is unheard of in very many L2 oral classrooms. A review of strategy research pertaining to the speaking skill has identified unresolved issues, leaving many unanswered questions. To address these issues, this study has adopted a quasi-experimental design and an interventionist study has been implemented in the junior ESL classroom in Hong Kong. The study has identified two major categories of strategies (i. e. direct and indirect) for learners' use in group discussion tasks. Three intact groups were involved in the intervention: one received training in the use of direct strategies, one in indirect strategies, and one had no strategy instruction. A multi-method approach (i. e. task ratings, questionnaires, observations and stimulated recall interviews) has been used to assess the impact of the intervention on students' strategy use and task performance. The findings show that that it may be useful to teach ESL students in the use of direct and indirect strategies for oral communications tasks. Direct strategy use may be related to language improvement whereas indirect strategy use may be related to task effectiveness and language improvement. It may be desirable to help low-proficiency students to develop strategic competence to compensate for their lack of linguistic competence. Last but not least, it may be desirable to adopt a systematic, eclectic approach to assessing the impact of strategy training and to incorporate the stimulated recall methodology to the teaching and research of the speaking skill as a unique avenue to students' thoughts and learning processes.
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Nguyen, Corinne. "Using New Testament parables in ESL teaching for the development of communicative competence." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Murray, Christina. "Teaching College Athletes Social Media Appropriateness." Scholarly Commons, 2021. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3733.
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It may come as no surprise that Twitter is the most popular social media platform where student athletes, particularly men, post inappropriate content. Male student athletes’ inappropriate tweets have become such a problem for universities, athletic departments, and the NCAA that coaches are forced to place a ban on their players’ social media usage or hire third party monitoring systems. Unfortunately, these reactive responses have not alleviated the problem of athletes differentiating what content is appropriate or inappropriate to tweet on their Twitter accounts. Analysis of the data collected from scholarly journal articles, textbooks, and popular press articles revealed that social media education would be the most effective prevention method to lessen student athletes’ inappropriate tweets. This project uses Dr. Mark Robinson’s approach to Personal Player Development in constructing its two resources—multimedia workshops and an interactive Canvas site. The purpose of this project is for student athletes to be more aware of their social media content by knowing how to post appropriate tweet messages on their personal Twitter accounts in order to enable athletes, especially men, to comprehend why certain tweet messages are classified as inappropriate and, therefore, should never be made public. This project is significant because it proposes a preventative method based on increased social media awareness, as opposed to typical reactionary measures.
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Bogdewiecz, Sarah E. "Hard Science Linguistics and Nonverbal Communicative Behaviors: Implications for the Real World Study and Teaching of Human Communication." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1177956267.
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Sidebotham, Bruce Thomas. "Teaching and communicating cross-culturally a case study /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Clayton, Malcolm William. "Visual and verbal texts and language teaching." Thesis, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), 1995. http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/21562/.
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With reference to language teaching, this research examines current trends in the combination of pictures and print. Assuming that when combined in texts, these utilize differential disclosures of visual and verbal feature, the research establishes some important provisos. Foremost among these is the stipulation that words and pictures do not communicate with each other in the same way. Thus although, on paper, they may be comprehensibly united, in their disclosure of features they remain mutually exterior and coded apart. Generalising from this, the study surveys other sources of exteriority in ELT. To investigate these, it is necessary to mediate across features which, though brought into contact, remain heterogeneously regulated and coded apart. Similarly, the researching of visual and verbal texts becomes a form of crosscultural arbitration. It therefore needs to account for (and bring into agreement) features extraordinarily combined. Since, by definition, these do not ordinarily communicate with each other in the same way, it is argued that they ought to be central to any field driven by considerations of foreignness. Because, for reasons of exteriority, the operandi of both linguistics and art history appear problematic, the research instead opts for an intervening modus vivendi. Thus Deleuze and Guattari's (1987) research metaphor of the 'nomad' is taken as germane. Since this provides some inkling of a conceptual middle ground, it serves as a general guide to observation and is pursued to a point where visual and verbal texts can be more equitably described. The description makes it possible to observe effective but hitherto unnoticed uses of space. Turning on points of framing, spatial positioning, multilinear connection and - beyond whatever is visible - lines of correspondence with language, these reveal that visual and verbal texts do indeed follow multiple but orderly lines of combination. Having described the principles behind these multilinear visual and verbal combinations, it becomes possible to re-appraise their role in language teaching. Again, therefore, the research concludes that since they seek to interrelate multiple but ordinarily noncommunicating parts, 'nomadic' orientations in general - and visual and verbal texts in particular - ought to be at the very heart of language teaching.
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Marschke, Renee. "Creating Contexts, Characters, and Communication: Foreign Language Teaching and Process Drama." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16104/.
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The foundational premise of communicatively-based foreign language teaching approaches is that the activities used in the classroom are 'communicative'; that the language learned is being used to 'communicate'. Genuine communication however is difficult to establish in a traditional classroom setting consisting of desks, chairs and textbooks. This project examines how a specific form of Drama in Education - process drama - can be used to create more authentic communicative situations and learning experiences in the foreign language classroom; experiences that are both intellectually and affectively engaging. It begins with a review of the literature pertaining to the three main areas that provide the backdrop to the project's central research proposition, namely second language acquisition, second language methodology and aesthetic education. The three main protagonists are then introduced, namely social interactionist theories of language acquisition, communicative language teaching approaches (the main focus being on task-based methodology), and process drama. The two supporting characters, change and motivation, also make their entrance. The curtain is then raised to reveal a performance of various teaching and learning experiences of the use of process drama in first and second language settings. This illustrates how process drama operates on a practical level and explores the offered potential for more authentic communication when this approach comes into contact with second language task-based methodology. Literature surrounding unit and lesson planning frameworks from the fields of both second language acquisition and process drama is then examined before the spotlight falls on the proposed 'Foreign language and Process drama' Unit and Lesson planning Framework. Illustrative models of the innovative framework together with concrete examples of its use are provided to represent more clearly how it can facilitate the creation of characters and contexts through which to communicate more authentically in the FL classroom. The closing curtain falls on a reflection of the entire project, which includes recommendations and possibilities for further research.
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Kongsom, Tiwaporn. "The effects of teaching communication strategies on Thai learners of English." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/69653/.
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The issue of teaching and learning communication strategies has been controversial over the past few decades. Whereas some theoretical arguments reject the benefits of teaching of communication strategies, many practical and empirical studies make pedagogical recommendations and support the idea. Nevertheless, there appears to be no information on teaching communication strategies to Thai learners of English in Thailand. To address these issues, this thesis investigates the effects of teaching communication strategies to Thai learners of English in Thailand. It was designed as an interventionist study conducted with a group of students. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected in the current study. Sixty-two fourth year students majoring in Engineering at King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok participated in this study. All the students received a 12-week communication strategy-based instruction and 12 students were asked to complete four speaking tasks and retrospective protocols. Data were collected via (1) self-report strategy questionnaire, (2) attitudinal questionnaire (3) transcription data of four different speaking tasks, and (4) retrospective protocols. The results from the self-report strategy questionnaire and the speaking tasks showed that the explicit teaching of communication strategies raised students’ awareness of strategy use and promoted the greater use of taught communication strategies of the students. The students considered the taught strategies in communication strategy instruction useful, especially pause fillers and hesitation devices, approximation, self repair and circumlocution. With respect to the retrospective verbal reports, the findings showed that the students tended to be more aware of the taught communication strategies. They revealed their intention and reasons behind their use of some taught communication strategies in more detail while completing the postspeaking tasks. Finally, the positive outcomes of the teaching of some specific communication strategies were supported by the findings of an attitudinal questionnaire on the strategy instruction. The findings suggest that the students found the communication strategy instruction useful for them. They also showed positive feelings and attitudes towards the communication strategy instruction.
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Fassbinder, Samuel Day. "Substitute teaching as critical research on school communication : an ethnographic study /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487953204280226.
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Nunn, Roger Charles. "Describing classroom communication in intercultural curricular research and development." Thesis, University of Reading, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320044.
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Lee, Cheun-Yeong. "A Case Study of Using Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication System for Spoken English Teaching and Learning Based on Sociocultural Theory and Communicative Language Teaching Approach Curriculum." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1242144550.
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Hagman, Jessica C. "Teaching Beyond the Stacks: Examining the Organizational Identification of Academic Librarians." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1427983207.
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Ko, Leong. "Teaching interpreting by distance mode /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17664.pdf.
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Marks, Lori J., and M. L. McMurray. "Core Vocabulary in Augmentative Communication." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3539.
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Stefansson, Niklas. "Teaching to communicate." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-34848.
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This dissertation explores how oral communication is perceived and used by five teachers at a secondary school in Malmö. Through qualitative interviews with the teachers, this paper aims to find a deeper understanding of their view on teaching. By looking at oral communication theories, sociocultural theories, a theory on discursive space and a recent study regarding English as a subject in Swedish secondary schools, it examines how the interviewees approach teaching. Based on the results, this paper will discuss how the teachers in this study initiate meaningful oral communication and how they view their own role as promoters of an oral communicative and inclusive learning environment.The results show that the teachers’ thoughts concerning oral communication to a large extent seem to agree with the theoretical basis presented in this study. However, the teachers claim to be restricted by external factors. The results show that the teachers in this study find working with oral communication very time consuming. According to them, their lessons are too short and the classes are too big. Therefore they find it difficult to create an ideal learning environment. The teachers try to motivate and encourage their students through creating tasks that are interesting from the students’ point of view. In order to give every student the opportunity to speak, dividing them into groups during speaking activities is preferred. Furthermore, the teachers point out that the students’ personalities also are important factors to take into account, since some students are more reserved then others. Finally, the teachers aim to be supportive during oral activities, although the lack of time seems to be a restraint. They find it hard to manage their big classes and to be supportive to the individual student at the same time.
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Chow, Ching-lan. "Integrating information communication technology in teaching and learning through interactive multimedia books." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39848693.
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Chow, Ching-lan, and 周靜蘭. "Integrating information communication technology in teaching and learning through interactive multimedia books." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39848693.
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Marckel, Julie Michelle. "Teaching Improvisation with the Picture Exchange Communication System to Children with Autism." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392817457.
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Frewan, Ahmed. "An exploration of EFL teachers' perceptions of the teaching of communication strategies." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10049/.
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This thesis is a study of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ perceptions of the teaching of communication strategies in some universities in the United Kingdom. This is an exploration to understand how EFL teachers perceive the idea of teaching communication strategies in their classrooms. The relevant literature suggests that there are contrasting points of view among researchers about the pedagogical effectiveness of the teaching of communication strategies. Consequently, the focus of this research is to look at the current EFL teachers’ perceptions and experiences of teaching communication strategies. The participants of this study were thirteen EFL teachers from two universities in the United Kingdom. Semi-structured interviews and classroom observations were the main methods used to elicit teachers’ views and experiences on teaching communication strategies. The qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) with the assistance of the NVIVO computer software. The findings of this study revealed that EFL teachers in some universities in the United Kingdom recommend and support the teaching of communication strategies. I also found out that students are becoming more dependent on their electronic devices and especially the translation applications installed on their mobile phones to help them search for the meaning of the vocabulary which they do not know. This issue intensified the teachers’ concerns about their students learning. This study also revealed that culture has an important role in the teaching and learning of communication strategies. This thesis argues that the teaching of communication strategies can be pedagogically effective to learners. It also suggests further research into the impact of the use of technology on learners’ communication strategies in the classroom.
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Pétursdóttir, Svava. "Using information and communication technology in lower secondary science teaching in Iceland." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3343/.
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This study is on using information and communication technology (ICT) in science education in Iceland. The requirement that ICT be utilized in teaching has only been met to a limited extent though schools appear to be well equipped. Data was collected through a mixed methods approach including a survey, interviews, and an intervention with eight science teachers. The study showed that teachers use equipment available to them but access to computers for pupils’ use is limited. The uses are primarily researching selected topics on the internet for writing essays or other products, watching video-clips and taking photos. Use of science specific applications is rare. Support structures for science teachers are weak and CPD opportunities scarce. Teachers have positive views towards ICT in teaching science. However there are considerable barriers to technology integration, teacher knowledge is a central element and resources, support and time are major factors affecting teachers’ use of technology. Four cases are explored through cultural historical activity theory, analysing the contradictions that are at work in the context of teaching science with ICT. This analysis illustrates how resources, knowledge and more latent factors are pivotal in the extent and proficiency of teachers’ technology use. Three interventions with a quasi-experimental design explore the effectiveness of a selection of digital learning resources (DLR). The results show that benefits from using DLR’s vary. In two topics the experimental classes scored significantly higher than the comparison classes but in the third it was the opposite. The findings indicate that DLR’s will have a more positive effect on learning results the more interactive features they contain. A further finding from the research concerns the expertise and impact of the science teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Perhaps not surprisingly, pupils of teachers with strong PCK tended to score higher, indicating that successful ICT based learning is related to teacher PCK.
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Mostert, Markus. "Information communication technologies to enhance teaching and learning in higher education a survey of teaching staff at Rhodes University /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2000. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11242009-161047.
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Moore, Michele Schmidt. "Written communication in an online learning environment." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/4581.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2009.<br>Vita: p. 203. Thesis director: Priscilla Norton. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-202). Also issued in print.
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Anosike, Cordelia Nwamaka. "Improving primary science teaching in Nigeria : a workshop approach." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021732/.
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Earlier studies have shown that the majority of the teachers in primary schools in Nigeria are ill-equipped to teach science. It was also established that most of these primary school science teachers had rather poor background and training in science. The present study was therefore designed to establish the efficacy of practical workshops as a way of furthering teachers' professional competency in science. This was done through a field study of these teachers in their teaching environment. The investigation was carried out in three phases. The first phase involved a questionnaire survey covering 180 primary six teachers located in three of the 30 states of Nigeria (Anambra, Kaduna and Plateau). The aim of this survey was to identify the topics in the primary science core curriculum which the teachers found difficult to teach. It was found that the teachers found magnetism a difficult topic to teach. The second phase involved the mounting of a 2-day in-service training workshop on the teaching of magnetism, for fifty teachers located in Anambra state. The workshop was designed as one of the mechanism for improving the knowledge and teaching skills of the teachers in science. The third phase of the study involved post-workshop visits, follow-up interviews and the observation of the teachers in action in their own classrooms. The visits were followed by a 1-day workshop which provided an opportunity for the workshop programme to be evaluated as well as for the teachers to meet for mutual exchanges of experiences. The outcomes of the workshops indicated that the teachers, as a result of their participation in the workshops, had achieved a greater understanding of magnetism and subsequently were able to teach the topic more confidently. The implications of this study for pre-service and in-service teacher education programmes as well as classroom science teaching practice are discussed.
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Govindsamy, Krishna. "Modelling optimal communication for the school as an organisation." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/802.
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A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
MA in Communication Science at the University of Zululand, 2002.<br>In this thesis I will apply the principles of organisational communication to school
management to develop a communication model that principals can use as part of
managing schools as organizations. In the first phase I will do a literature review of
organizational communication to help me design a communication model for schools.
In the second phase I will do an empirical survey of principals' understanding of organizational
communication, and oftheir present communication practices.
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Richards, James Graydon. "A manual for teaching communication skills to Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada lay persons." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Marks, Lori J. "Supporting Communication Using Pictures and Symbols." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3676.
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Cyr, Sara. "Mentoring Relationships for the New Graduate Assistant: The Role of Communication Apprehension and Information Seeking Strategies." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/CyrSM2003.pdf.
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Salisbury, Jennifer JM. "Rural Retiree Volunteer Motivations for Nonfamily-Based Intergenerational Communication." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1164.
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Several decades of research document a growing communication gap between older adults and younger generations, with retirees limiting the information they share with younger generations. This limitation is often due to older adults' low self-efficacy and technology as a communication distraction, a trend which has resulted in the loss of intellectual capital for younger generations. The purpose of the study was to understand and increase knowledge transfer between retirees and unrelated younger people in a rural Canadian community. Communication theory of identity and social cognitive theory provided the research frameworks. The research questions examined what knowledge retirees could pass down, retirees' reasons for sharing knowledge, and the community's influence on generational communication. A qualitative case study incorporated several data sources including in-depth semi-structured individual interviews and focus groups (N = 40), and an analysis of existing literature. Transcribed recordings and field note analysis using open coding and peer debrief review resulted in 5 emergent themes. Key findings indicated participants felt they had little or nothing to share despite a variety of life experiences, found communication success with nontechnology-based catalysts, and felt the community has closed social circles. Transferring identity during retirement was difficult for many participants, a finding which supported the resulting project: a retiree social transition workshop. These findings suggest that those approaching retirement may benefit from identity transition support from employment to retirement, resulting in increased well-being in retirement, increased self-efficacy and motivations, and improved knowledge transfer to younger generations.
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Rittgers, Melissa. "An Evaluation of Resurgence in an Applied Setting: Teaching Multiple Responses to Decrease Resurgence." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1703.
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Resurgence is the re-emergence of a previously extinguished response following the establishment and elimination of reinforcement for an alternative response. Resurgence has been evaluated with non-human animals (Epstien, 1983; Lieving & Lattal, 2003) as well as in translational and applied studies with humans (Bruzek & Thompson, 2006; Hoffman & Falcomata, 2014; Lieving et al., 2004). Mitigating resurgence can be an important clinical concern to address when the initially extinguished response (i.e., the one that resurges) is problem behavior. The current study sought to extend previous research from Carrasquillo (2014) related to the effect teaching multiple alternative responses might have on levels of resurgence. Three participants with developmental disabilities participated in the study. One participant’s behavior did not come under control of the contingencies, thus resurgence could not be evaluated. For the remaining two participants, some level of resurgence was noted following extinction of single alternative and multiple alternative responses. When resurgence occurred, it was less pronounced in the context associated with the multiple alternative responses. These results supported previous, similar findings. The results are discussed with respect to the implications for future research and clinical practice.
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Frantz, Rebecca. "Coaching teaching assistants to implement naturalistic behavioral teaching strategies to enhance social communication skills during play in the preschool classroom." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23117.
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Naturalistic behavioral interventions increase the acquisition, generalization, and maintenance of child social communication skills among children with developmental delays (DD). Teaching Assistants (TAs) are ideal interventionists for delivering social communication interventions because of the significant amount of time they spend working directly with children with DD in the preschool classroom. However, professional development for TAs is often inadequate and there has been a limited amount of research in this area. In addition, TAs are often working with more than one child at a time with varying skill levels, but no research has been conducted on the use of strategies with more than one child at a time. The current single-case research study addresses gaps in the literature by answering the following questions: (1) Is there a functional relation between coaching TAs to use EMT and increases in TA’s fidelity of implementation of EMT with a child dyad?; (2) Is there a functional relation between TA’s use of EMT and increases in child social communication skills?; and (3) Are TAs able to generalize the use of EMT across students with varying social communication skills and goals? Results suggest coaching TAs contributes to increases in fidelity of implementation of EMT strategies and subsequent increases in child social communication skills. TAs were able to generalize the use of EMT across students.
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Benning, Lauren M. "The state of the communication discipline : a survey of scholarly perceptions." Scholarly Commons, 1998. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2340.
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Many researchers have attempted to examine the paradigmatic status of the communication field. There have been numerous writings regarding areas of weakness within the field, in hopes to determine the fate of what many see as a "confused discipline." Some researchers have claimed the problems lie with the diverse nature of communication research, while others have cited a lack of proactive collegiality as the mam concern.
This study examines scholarly attitudes toward the state of the communication discipline including the paradigmatic status, scholarly reputation, issues of collegiality, homogeneity of research goals, and relevance to society. A survey was distributed to 350 randomly selected members ofNCA and ICA in the United States. Additional questions asked why scholars think students choose to major in communication and what the future holds for the field.
Results yielded several significant findings regarding each of the above variables. Also included is a discussion of research limitations as well as several suggestions for future research. One suggestion proposes that future research should examine scholarly attitudes based on the number of years they've been in the communication field. This could yield new knowledge regarding "old school" versus "new school" scholarly views on the reputation and paradigmatic status of the field.
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Swingen, Cynthia Carol. "Elementary preservice teachers' use of dialogic teaching." Thesis, Lewis and Clark College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3665941.
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<p> This instrumental, collective, targeted case study explores decisions elementary preservice teachers make with respect to culturally responsive teaching through the lens of dialogic teaching. Most candidates currently enrolled in elementary teacher education programs in the United States are young, white, and female. Meanwhile, the population of students in U.S. schools grows increasingly diverse, leading to a widening cultural gap between teachers and many of their students. Many preservice teachers opt not to use culturally responsive instructional strategies, particularly those related to communication, also known as dialogic teaching practices, despite research indicating such practices foster improved academic achievement for all students-but especially for students of color who are typically underserved in U.S. schools. Who the preservice teachers are when they enter teacher education programs, their experiences inside and outside of school, plus factors as broad as the context of schooling in the United States to as narrow as the impact of one particular student in a classroom, influence the choices a preservice teacher makes when faced with a lesson to teach, a room full of young children, and a ticking clock. Explicating decisions made by preservice teachers through direct classroom observations, followed by one-on-one interviews, provides a glimpse into factors promoting or inhibiting participants' use of dialogic teaching strategies. This study is part of the larger effort to support student discourse and teacher preparation through the use of one component of culturally responsive instruction as viewed through the lens of dialogic teaching, thus addressing the need to better serve all children in our nation's schools. </p>
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Thomas, Brennan M. "Composition Studies and Teaching Anxiety: A Pilot Study of Teaching Groups and Discipline- and Program-Specific Triggers." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1151207488.
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