scholarly journals Efforts Made in Enhancing Communication Skills of Student University Librarian in the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doddy Rusmono ◽  
Euis Rosinar ◽  
Susanti Agustina
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Made In

scholarly journals COMMUNICATION SKILLS AS A KEY TO CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 227-231
Author(s):  
Palle Manohar ◽  
G. Chenna Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Collaborative Activities ◽  
Crucial Ingredient ◽  
Historical Necessity

The postmodern phenomenon of globalization has launched digitalization as an outcome and the part of communication technologies by which the world has been brought together transcending the barriers of countries and cultures. The increase of global trade and the necessity of close and interlinked association among the nations at various stages of development have become imperative today as a historical necessity for future survival. Communication skills, especially in English, have become a crucial ingredient in all most all activities of life as communication channels are the arteries through which information flows and circulates to sustain any activity without disruption. Besides, to that the growth of coordination and collaborative activities in all spheres of life both public and private. Acquisition of and master over communication skills are the intellectual tools by which one’s competence is measured and career is enhanced. In the age of specialization and hierarchal structures of large organizations, communication is the link connecting and synergizing all activities and ability to communicate clearly and effectively is of immeasurable significance, to assume an important place in any organization. Every field of activity has its own specific vocabulary, specialized jargon and modes of communication which should be mastered by all participants to maintain the overall activity, especially in the age of digitalization. To rise effectively in one’s career and contribute satisfactorily and successfully, special packages of communication skills should be designed and imparted to all potential candidates who are ambitious of to rise high in one’s career. The inauguration of digital age made it both convenient to choose ones place and time for learning and also challenging as to how to utilize the recent technologies to enhance and extend ones communicative reach to become successful in one’s career. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the various programs and strategies of communication necessary to enhance ones career prospects by training the participants to equip themselves with right competitive communication skills in tandem with contemporary digital technology available.

scholarly journals The Communication Skills of Future Teachers during their Initial Training

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Vicente Rodríguez Fuentes ◽  
María Fernanda Ayllón Blanco ◽  
José Luis Gallego Ortega ◽  
Isabel Angustias Gómez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Classroom Teacher ◽  
Educational Communication ◽  
Initial Training ◽  
Classroom Communication ◽  
Professional Teacher ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Teaching Programs ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Made In

Communication skills are considered vital in order to work as a professional teacher. This study evaluates the communication skills of students in teaching programs at two public universities of Spain. We developed a questionnaire based on consolidated theoretical knowledge in the field of educational communication: a) skills as a transmitter, b) skills as a receiver, c) skills as a classroom teacher, d) skills as a participant in meetings, and e) skills as a tutor; and gave it to 670 students who were in their first (start of their degree), second (middle of their degree) and third years (about to graduate) of a teaching degree in the academic year 2013/2014, so that the data reflected the participants' levels of experience. Through the use of cross-cutting research methods we obtained the data and performed quantitative analyses of a descriptive nature. The results revealed a certain inadequacy in the acquisition and development of teaching-related communication skills, which was more pronounced in supposedly "classical" areas of communication: transmission and reception than in others: classroom communication, meeting participation and tutorial conversation, despite the fact that more progress is made in the former areas over time. We discuss these data and offer guidelines for specific training. 

A Match Made in “Outer Heaven:”

2014 ◽  
pp. 248-282
Author(s):  
Jorge Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Proliferation ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Digital Rhetoric ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
War Economy ◽  
Ideological Criticism ◽  
Nuclear Age ◽  
Made In

The stealth-action videogame Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots features the tired heroics of Solid Snake (also known as Old Snake), a retired, legendary soldier whose services are demanded one last time by a world in perpetual war. This epic game, containing almost ten hours of cutscenes alone, delineates the consequences not only of nuclear proliferation, but of mass (re)production in a digital age. In this fourth and final entry in the Solid Snake saga the two go hand-in-hand: a nuclear age exacerbated by advanced technology, advanced technology proliferated under the banner of a post-Cold War war economy. In this chapter, Kenneth Burke's rhetoric of rebirth and Slavoj Žižek's ideological criticism, along with several ludological frameworks, are adopted to show how various multiliteracies can be unearthed from this artifact of digital rhetoric. The chapter closes with implications for digital rhetoric studies.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubhangi R. Khambayat
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Workplace Communication ◽  
Instructional Resources ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Overwhelming Evidence ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Made In

Communication plays an important role in our everyday life. Good communication is therefore vital for effective functioning in the work environment. There is overwhelming evidence that proficiency in communication skills can make any individual more versatile, and thus more competitive in the workplace. Communication is a mode, which helps every one of us to transfer our messages, thoughts, feelings, thinking, imagination and ideas. This is a function pre-installed or naturally exists in every human being to show his/her existence by language. Thus, every student certainly needs effective and impressive communication skills. As a result, there are growing expectations from educational institutions to cater the needs of the workplace. One of the major issues we need to address includes, what measures should be taken to make the students work-ready‘? In this perspective, Teachers have an important role to play in enhancing the communication skills among students. Considering the diversity in the classroom, there is a growing demand to use innovative methods and strategies, including framing good quality instructional resources to enhance various sub-skills of communication among our students. An attempt is made in this article, to contribute to the ongoing discussion in the changing contexts of communication skills from the perspective of preparing our students to face future challenges. The paper shares ideas on enhancing the four core elements of Communication skills, including listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in order to get an edge up in the competition for work and employment.

scholarly journals The Information Structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies. An empirical perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica Domínguez ◽  
Mireia Farrús ◽  
Leo Wanner
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Information Structure ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Text To Speech ◽  
The Past ◽  
Communicative Intention ◽  
Simple Question ◽  
Empirical Perspective ◽  
State Of Art ◽  
Made In

AbstractThe correspondence between the communicative intention of a speaker in terms of Information Structure and the way this speaker reflects communicative aspects by means of prosody have been a fruitful field of study in Linguistics. However, text-to-speech applications still lack the variability and richness found in human speech in terms of how humans display their communication skills. Some attempts were made in the past to model one aspect of Information Structure, namelythematicityfor its application to intonation generation in text-to-speech technologies. Yet, these applications suffer from two limitations: (i) they draw upon a small number of made-up simple question-answer pairs rather than on real (spoken or written) corpus material; and (ii) they do not explore whether any other interpretation would better suit a wider range of textual genres beyond dialogs. In this paper, two different interpretations of thematicity in the field of speech technologies are examined: the state-of-art binary (and flat) theme-rheme, and the hierarchical thematicity defined by Igor Mel’čuk within the Meaning-Text Theory. The outcome of the experiments on a corpus of native speakers of US English suggests that the latter interpretation of thematicity has a versatile implementation potential for text-to-speech applications of theInformation Structure–prosodyinterface.

A Match Made in “Outer Heaven:”

Gamification ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 159-193
Author(s):  
Jorge Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Proliferation ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Digital Rhetoric ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
War Economy ◽  
Ideological Criticism ◽  
Nuclear Age ◽  
Made In

The stealth-action videogame Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots features the tired heroics of Solid Snake (also known as Old Snake), a retired, legendary soldier whose services are demanded one last time by a world in perpetual war. This epic game, containing almost ten hours of cutscenes alone, delineates the consequences not only of nuclear proliferation, but of mass (re)production in a digital age. In this fourth and final entry in the Solid Snake saga the two go hand-in-hand: a nuclear age exacerbated by advanced technology, advanced technology proliferated under the banner of a post-Cold War war economy. In this chapter, Kenneth Burke's rhetoric of rebirth and Slavoj Žižek's ideological criticism, along with several ludological frameworks, are adopted to show how various multiliteracies can be unearthed from this artifact of digital rhetoric. The chapter closes with implications for digital rhetoric studies.

scholarly journals TEACHERS PERSPECTIVE ON COMMUNICATION SKILLS AMONG ENGINEERING STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubhangi R. Khambayat
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Global Workforce ◽  
The World ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Graduating Students ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire ◽  
Made In

Communication skills among graduating students are seen as a key performance indicator to measure the success of any individual in the world of work in many countries in the region. Taking into account graduating students competing for job positions with a global workforce, it would be their Communication skills proficiency that would be tested to the maximum, as English is the most widely spoken languages in the world at present. An effective communication, act as a bridge to fulfil the gap between world of study and world of work and thereby make passouts readily acceptable to the industry. The institution offering educational programs will have to integrate Communication skills as an integrated component to prepare young students for future employment (ABET, 2000). An attempt is made in this paper to investigate the level of communication skills among students. Teachers’ views were sought on Communication skills via a self-administered questionnaire. It assessed four core elements in Communication skills, including listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The paper shares the outcomes of this survey.

scholarly journals Book Review: Are Libraries Obsolete? An Argument for Relevance in the Digital Age

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Melissa De Fino
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Made In

In 2001, a legislator told Mark Herring “everything was on the Internet, so why did our students need a new, big library building?” (7). Herring responded by publishing a brief and highly popular list, “10 Reasons Why the Internet is No Substitute for a Library.”1 Six years later, Herring transformed that list into a book, Fool’s Gold: Why the Internet is No Substitute for a Library (McFarland 2007). Both the list and book outline in passionate detail Herring’s view that the Internet’s many flaws make it inferior to the library. “Not everything is on the Internet” writes Herring, and “quality control doesn’t exist. . . . The Internet is ubiquitous but books are portable.”2 His latest book, Are Libraries Obsolete? An Argument for Relevance in the Digital Age, revisits points made in his earlier works. Thirteen years after Herring’s original list was published, has the Internet made the library obsolete? Herring says no.

Pedagogical Language of Jazz

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Russell A. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Effective Instruction ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
First Century ◽  
Jazz Education ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Jazz Ensemble ◽  
Education Resources ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Gradual Development

The pedagogy of jazz continues to evolve. Changes in the art form itself, the gradual development of jazz education resources and techniques, the ubiquitous availability of historically significant recordings in the digital age, and other factors play roles in this continued evolution. However, many longstanding pedagogical theories of what constitutes effective instruction are shown to be true for generation after generation of music students. This chapter outlines practical, effective teaching techniques applied to twenty-first-century jazz ensemble instruction. Topics explored in this chapter include rehearsal plan development; effective communication skills; techniques to ensure student engagement; rehearsal technique; the value of role modeling; and strategies for offering direction and teacher feedback in a manner that will be best received by today’s students, through use of specific language in one’s critiques.

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