scholarly journals Helping aerospace engineering students develop their intercultural communicative competence

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-99
Author(s):  
Sofia Di Sarno-García
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Aerospace Engineering ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

This paper presents a six-week telecollaborative project carried out between B2 (Common European Framework of Reference for languages – CEFR) level learners of English from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain, and B1 (CEFR) level students of Spanish as a foreign language from the University of Bath (UK). The aim of the project was to help Spanish-speaking students develop their Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC). Students carried out asynchronous discussions focusing on two cultural topics in groups of four through the social network MeWe and participated in synchronous Zoom sessions in pairs. To conclude the project, students completed a collaborative task with their overseas partners. Qualitative data was gathered through the analysis of the transcripts of the Zoom sessions, the students’ posts on MeWe, as well as a final project questionnaire. Results revealed that the students who engaged the most in the synchronous sessions and felt curiosity about their partners’ culture were also the same ones who contributed the most to the cultural discussions on MeWe. At the end of the course all participants felt they had learnt something about their partners’ culture.

scholarly journals Adaptation of community-based distribution of family planning services to context-specific social networks: a case of marriage counsellors in Lusaka district, Zambia

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Nyundo ◽  
Maxine Whittaker ◽  
Lynne Eagle ◽  
David R. Low
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Fertility Decisions ◽  
Modern Contraceptives ◽  
The Social

Abstract Background The significant contribution of community-based distribution (CBD) of family planning services and contraceptives to the uptake of contraceptives in hard-to-reach communities has resulted in the scaling-up of this approach in many Sub-Saharan countries. However, contextual factors need to be taken into consideration. For example, social network influence (e.g. spouse/partner, in-laws, and parents) on fertility decisions in many African and Asian societies is inevitable because of the social organisational structures. Hence the need to adapt CBD strategies to the social network context of a given society. Methods Data collection involved structured interviews from August 2018 to March 2019. Randomly selected respondents (n = 149) were recruited from four purposively selected health facilities in Lusaka district, Zambia. Respondents were screened for age (> 15 yrs.) and marital status. A mix of categorical and qualitative data was generated. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS®24) was used to carry out descriptive analysis and tests of association (Fisher’s exact) while Nvivo®12 was used to analyse the qualitative data using a deductive thematic approach. Results The results indicate that pre-marriage counselling (pre-MC) influences key elements of the husband-wife relationship (p > 0.005), namely; sexual relationship, inter-personal communication, assignation of roles and responsibilities, leadership and authority. These elements of the husband-wife relationship also affect how spouses/partners interact when making fertility decisions. More importantly, the majority (86%) of the respondents indicated having a continuing relationship with their marriage counsellors because of the need to consult them on marital issues. Conclusion Marriage counsellors, though hardly reported in fertility studies, are important ‘constituents’ of the social network in the Zambian society. This is because marriage counsellors are trusted sources of information about marital issues and often consulted about family planning but perceived not to have the correct information about modern contraceptives. In this context, pre-MC offers a readily available, sustainable and culturally appropriate platform for disseminating accurate information about modern contraceptives provided in a private and personal manner. Therefore, the CBD strategy in Zambia can harness marriage counsellors by recruiting and training them as community agents.

scholarly journals PERAN JARINGAN SOSIAL PADA KAMPANYE LINGKUNGAN DI MEDIA SOSIAL: KASUS KAMPANYE MELAWAN ASAP

INFORMASI ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Ika Hariyani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Campaigns ◽  
The University ◽  
Depth Interviews

Campaigns nowadays are oftenly carried through social medias, including campaigns concerning the environment. Based on previous studies, effectivity of campaigns through social medias were affected by many factors, such as the activity of the online administrator, additional socialization that were carried off- line, and also the involvement of the active followers in social medias. However, this paper views environmental campaign in social medias could be effective if viewed from another side,that is social network. This study sees how social network can improve the effectivity of environmental campaigns in social medias,therefore it’s safe to say that this study brings an addition to previous studies related tofactors that influenced the effectivity of environmental campaigns that utilized social medias as a channel of communication. The method used for this paper is qualitative method, with case study on Melawan Asap (Fight the Haze) campaign initiated by BEM UI (Executive Board of Students of University of Indonesia) in 2015 to form an alliance consisting several organizations from inside and outside of the university. Collection of data for this study was done with in-depth interviews with certain informants, based on a criteria established previously by the author, beside an observation upon social media accounts that were used for Fight the Haze campaign. The result shows that the involvement of networks in social media affects the effectivity of Fight the Haze campaign. Also, the social relation between organizations that are united under the alliance of Fight the Haze campaign are based on sentimental network.Kampanye kian marak dilakukan dengan menggunakan media sosial, tidak terkecuali kampanye lingkungan. Berdasarkan kajian-kajian sebelumnya, keefektifan kampanye dengan menggunakan media sosial dipengaruhi oleh berbagai faktor seperti adanya administrator online yang aktif, adanya sosialisasi tambahan yang dilakukan secara offline, dan juga terlibatnya pengikut/followers di media sosial secara aktif. Namun, tulisanini melihat kampanye lingkungan di media sosial dapat efektif dari sisi lain yaitu dari jaringan sosial. Kajian ini melihat bagaimana jaringan sosial berperan dalam membuat efektif kampanye lingkungan di media sosial, sehingga dapat dikatakan bahwa kajian ini menambahkan penemuan dari kajian-kajian sebelumnya yang berbicara mengenai faktor yang membuat efektif kampanye lingkungan dengan menggunakan media sosial sebagai media komunikasinya. Metode yang digunakan dalam tulisan ini adalah metode kualitatif dengan studi kasus pada kampanye melawan asap yang diinisiatori oleh BEM UI 2015 untuk membentuk sebuah aliansi dengan menggandeng beberapa organisasi di UI dan juga dari luar UI. Pengambilan data dalam studi ini dilakukan melalui wawancara mendalam dengan informan- informan tertentu berdasarkan kriteria yang penulis tetapkan dan melakukan observasi terhadap akun media sosial yang digunakan untuk menyebarluaskan kampanye melawan asap. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa keterlibatan peran jaringan di media sosial mempengaruhi efektifitas kampanye melawan asap, serta hubungan sosial antar organisasi yang tergabung dalam aliansi gerakan melawan asap terbentuk berdasarkan jaringan perasaan/sentiment.

Integrated Product Teams at The University of Alabama in Huntsville

2011 ◽  
pp. 68-76
Author(s):  
Matthew W. Turner ◽  
Michael P.J. Benfield ◽  
Dawn R. Utley ◽  
Cynthia A. McPherson
Keyword(s):  
Text Messaging ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Aerospace Engineering ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Senior Design ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
The University ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Product Team

The capstone senior design class in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is taught as a distributed Integrated Product Team (IPT) experience. Engineering students are teamed with students of different disciplines within UAH and with students at universities in other states and Europe. Because of the distributed nature of these teams, the IPT students must use a variety of technologies to communicate. The authors of this chapter found that the students prefer familiar, informal, contemporary forms of communication, including Google Groups/Sites, Skype, instant messaging, e-mail, phone calls, and text messaging for team communication and project management, and reject more formalized forms of communication, even if advanced features are offered. Most importantly, the authors found that the effectiveness of all forms of technology based communication tools is greatly enhanced when the students have the opportunity to personally meet prior to the design semester.

English as a Lingua Franca in Mainland China: An Analysis of Intercultural Business Communicative Competence

2020 ◽  
pp. 232948841989822
Author(s):  
Yao Yao ◽  
Bertha Du-Babcock
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Business Professionals ◽  
Chinese Business

China’s rapid expanding its collaboration with the rest of the world entails an urgent need of numerous talents with excellent intercultural communicative competence. Past research has shown that limited empirical studies are available on intercultural communicative competence in business contexts of Mainland China. To bridge the gap, the present study aims to explore what competencies are obligatory for successful intercultural business communication by examining the perceptions of Chinese business professionals on this issue. Adopting the triangulated research method, the present study employs both quantitative and qualitative data to ascertain a better understanding of the issues in question and to corroborate the results obtained from these two research methods. Two hundred and twenty-seven ( N = 227) Chinese business professionals filled in the online questionnaires and 11 of them participated in follow-up interviews. Our findings indicate that intercultural business communicative competence (IBCC) consists of four obligatory components: three in relation to cultural ability (metacognitive intelligence, motivational intelligence, and behavioral intelligence) and one to language ability (strategic competence). Based on our findings, we present a model of IBCC with implications to theory, practice, and education for intercultural business communication.

scholarly journals El papel de la movilidad estudiantil en el desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa intercultural: un estudio de caso

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-43
Author(s):  
Marjana Šifrar Kalan
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Limited Sample ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The University ◽  
Interpretative Research

The objective of this case study is to investigate the role of student mobility in the development of intercultural communicative competence in university students. In order to indicate the changes in the participants, especially about their attitudes towards Spanish culture, Spaniards and their stereotypes, an interpretative research with an ethnographic approach has been carried out, namely, we have interviewed several students of Hispanic Philology from the University of Ljubljana (level C1 of Spanish), who had spent at least one semester with the Erasmus scholarship studying in Spain. The article does not pretend to achieve a statistical generalization due to its limited sample, however it can be useful as a preliminary study.

scholarly journals Content-based instruction in the flipped classroom to enhance EFL learners’ intercultural communicative competence

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Rohmy Husniah ◽  
Nicholas Lischynsky ◽  
Abdul Ghani Abu ◽  
Farah Natchiar
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Private University ◽  
English Department ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Students Satisfaction

The use of educational technology has given rise to the flipped classroom in providing learners with opportunities for active learning and engaging with material inside and outside class. Many previous studies have reported students’ satisfaction in using the flipped classroom for medical, math, and English courses; however, research on using flipped classroom to enhance learners’ intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the EFL classroom remains insufficient. Therefore, this paper studies a one-semester project in which learners developed their ICC skills through content-based instruction (CBI) in a flipped classroom setting. Twenty-six students in the English department of a private university in Indonesia participated in this study. Using qualitative data analysis, the results show that CBI and flipped classroom improved the participants’ ICC significantly. These results could be valuable for those who wish to conduct similar research.

scholarly journals THE STUDY OF SELF-DETERMINED MOTIVATION OF STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF DISTANCE LEARNING ACTIVITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-238
Author(s):  
N.A. Khlybova ◽  
I.V. Tomicheva ◽  
I.V. Girenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Motivational Aspect ◽  
The Social ◽  
Online Distance Learning ◽  
Online Distance ◽  
The University ◽  
Effective Integration

The article examines the self-determined motivation of students studying at the V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Simferopol) in the context of pedagogical activity using the social network VKONTAKTE as a platform for educational interaction and distance knowledge formation. The paper uses the theory of self-determination of Deci and Ryan, which provides an appropriate basis for assessing self-determined motivation in a targeted audience in the context of distance learning based on ICT. The results show that students are motivated to use the pages of the social network VKONTAKTE for educational purposes, which allows them to gain new knowledge and satisfaction from improving their own level of education. Taking into account the motivational aspect of the use of the social network in the university pedagogy of online distance learning, it can be concluded that it has a significant potential for large-scale and effective integration of ICT in higher education.

scholarly journals UNDERGRADUATE WRITING ASSIGNMENTS IN ENGINEERING: TRACKING ATTRIBUTE 7 IN TWO ACCREDITATION CYCLES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Marcynuk ◽  
Anne Parker
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
National Study ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Course Syllabi ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The University ◽  
Written Assignments

This paper reports on two iterations of our study of course syllabi in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba. The first iteration was part of a national study investigating the writing demands placed on students in a variety of disciplines, including those in the Social Sciences and the Humanities as well as Engineering. This first iteration followed an accreditation visit and the Faculty’s introduction of the C.E.A.B. graduate attributes and outcome-based assessment. Although one would expect Engineering to have far fewer written assignments than these other disciplines, such was not always the case. For example, the national study captured results for Political Science that closely matched those for Mechanical Engineering; Political Science students typically wrote, on average, 2.3 written assignments in year 2 of their program, 2.4 written assignments in year 3, and 4.2 written assignments in year 4, while Mechanical Engineering students wrote 4, 3 and 4.2 written assignments in those same years. Such a finding suggested that more writing was happening in the Faculty of Engineering than we might realize – and quiteapart from that done in the mandatory communication class. So, our second iteration of the study followed another accreditation cycle, but this time we focused solely on the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manitoba. In this second iteration, our goal was to refresh the data so that we could clarify how Attribute 7, “communication skills,” is being met in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manitoba.  

Students-Physicists Informative Foreign Language Reading E-Learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Святкина ◽  
E. Svyatkina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Physics Institute ◽  
Foreign Language Reading ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University

The need of introduction the e-learning course “Academic skills” for the third year students-physicists after their having completed a two-years compulsory English course is substantiated in the article. The course contributes to further communicative competence forming. It implies informative foreign language reading skills development. This could allow engineering students to better understand general and complex scientific notions while reading articles on their future speciality. The author considers e-learning to be in demand in our modern society and this form of getting education distantly is regarded as most popular one successfully involved in educational milieu. It is e-learning developed within INFOMEPHIST system based on Moodle and having strong methodical, didactical and technical support that became popular in National Research Nuclear University (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute). The announced e-learning course is expected to be inserted in the unique education environment of the University.

The Hidden Curriculum as a Mechanism of Reproducing Gender Stereotypes in the Communicative Environment of The University

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-64
Author(s):  
Шишлова ◽  
E. Shishlova
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Hidden Curriculum ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Gender Socialization ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Educational Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

The article discusses the concept of the hidden curriculum in terms of its institutional and communicative aspects. It deals with the reasons for the sustainability of gender stereotypes in the communicative environment of the university. The main mechanism of reproducing gender stereotypes and values is believed to be the social context of an educational organization. It is characterized by a level of teacher’s communicative competence. The article analyzes the characteristics of teacher’s verbal and non-verbal behavior and their impacts on the processes of gender socialization and identification of modern students. The transformation of gender relations is seen as an objective and global process caused by progressive socio-economic changes, whose influence on education requires careful analysis.

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