scholarly journals Differences in Interpersonal Communication Efficacy among Chinese and International Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-85
Author(s):  
Xintong Lu
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Policy Makers

Within Chinese societies, as in western ones, interpersonal relationships, which can also be called social relations, are one of the most important needs for human beings. Within universities, Interpersonal Communication Efficacy (ICE) has been regarded as having a direct influence on the psychological health of undergraduate students. Based upon the theory of Bandura’s self-efficacy and Xie Jing’s ICE, this article compares the extent of ICE between domestic and international students in a Chinese university. The aim is to identify the similarities and differences between the two research groups, and the implications for the stakeholders (students, teachers, policy-makers, and researchers). A case study was conducted using a questionnaire survey. By employing the methods of quantitative analysis, the questionnaires of 390 respondents were analysed by using variance analysis of SPSS software. The findings of the study reveal that Chinese students are more likely to pay attention to interpersonal communication, and are more interdependent than other international students. This implies the importance of teaching communication skills, improving interpersonal communication efficacy, and understanding teaching and learning across cultures within the ongoing internationalisation of education.

scholarly journals Learning Analytics in a Virtual Learning Environment: the challenge of mapping socio-affective scenarios

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 190-204
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Mayumi Akazaki ◽  
Leticia Rocha Machado ◽  
Ketia Kellen Araújo da Silva ◽  
Patricia Alejandra Behar
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Visualization Of Data

Virtual courses are increasingly being offered in Brazil, making it imperative to develop technological resources and research to help in the teaching and learning processes in this modality. One approach is to analyze student's socio-affective profile in Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). The co-operative learning network (ROODA) VLE has two features called the Social Map (SM) and Affective Map (AM), which can both contribute to the visualization of data regarding social interaction indicators and students' moods in the environment. The SM presents the social relations formed through indicators, which are the absence; collaboration; the distance from the class; evasion; informal groups and popularity, enabling the identification of the participating subjects in the form of sociograms. The AM identifies students' moods graphically through indicators, which are excitement, discouragement, satisfaction, and dissatisfaction. Thus, this article aims to map the possible recurrent socio-affective scenarios in a VLE using Learning Analytics (LA). LA is defined as measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about students and their contexts to understand as well as optimize learning and the environments in which it occurs. It can also contribute to the understanding of student's learning profile, based on social and affective aspects, thus allowing the teacher to develop pedagogical strategies consistent with the needs of each subject. The importance of integrating the possible social and affective scenarios was verified using LA, making it possible to deepen the comprehension of the subjective and qualitative questions regarding the students' interactions in the VLE. In this study, the scenarios are understood as the intersection between the Affective Map and Social Map indicators identified in a VLE. It has both a qualitative and quantitative approach. The choice is qualitatively justified because the research object involves social and affective phenomena that were subjectively expressed in texts and social interactions manifested in the ROODA VLE. It is quantitatively justified by the need to measure the mapping of socio-affective indicators through social parameters and moods applying LA. The subjects were undergraduate students who participated in distance learning courses at a Brazilian public university that used the ROODA VLE in the second semester of 2019. Data were collected from social and affective maps to identify if there was a relationship between them. As a result, based on the existing indicators of social interactions and moods, the socio-affective indicators were created using LA in order to analyze the students’ behavior in relation to the forms of interaction and communication that occur in the ROODA VLE.

scholarly journals The Value of Anthropology in Child Health Policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Spray
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Child Health Policy ◽  
Streptococcus A ◽  
Government Initiative

AbstractWorking at the nexus of medical anthropology and the anthropology of childhood, this article challenges three assumptions often embedded in child health policy: (1) children are the passive recipients of healthcare; (2) children’s knowledge of illness and their body can be assumed based on adult understandings; and (3) children’s healthcare can be isolated from their social relations. I explore these themes through the case study of a 2011 New Zealand government initiative to reduce the rates of rheumatic fever affecting low-income Māori and Pasifika children. Drawing on fieldwork with around 80 children at an Auckland primary school, I show how the ‘sore throat’ programme does not merely treat streptococcus A infections, but plays an active role in constituting children’s experiences and understandings of their bodies and illness, and in shaping healthcare practices in ways unintended by policy-makers.

A cross-university initiative to enhance SOTL through a students as partners approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Colin Bryson
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Western Washington ◽  
Traditional Structures ◽  
Washington University

This case study evaluates a new initiative to establish a cross-disciplinary forum focusing on enhancing learning, teaching and the student experience. All staff and students are welcome to participate and participants set the agenda themselves. The intention is to have open and informal dialogue and to work in partnership towards setting up collective participatory action-research projects. This is modelled on the Teaching and Learning Academy at Western Washington University (Werder and Otis, 2010). An important aim was to create a space to give voice for those - the so-called ‘hard to reach’- who do not get such opportunities in traditional structures. There have been many challenges to creating a sustainable and successful working model, not least such barriers as communications, creating time and opportunity and working against current dominant cultures. Nonetheless, staff and students, including many international students, have participated and found legitimacy to discuss their own priorities. 

Blended Learning Support for Undergraduate Students’ Research and Writing Skills Development

2014 ◽  
pp. 341-368
Author(s):  
Asako Yoshida
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Support ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
Main Barrier ◽  
The University

In this exploratory study, a subject librarian and a writing instructor investigated the potential of designing blended learning around research paper assignments in the context of two foundational courses in the Faculty of Human Ecology at the University of Manitoba, Canada. The objective was to explore alternative, more embedded learning support for undergraduate students. The significance of blended learning support was situated in the broader literature of the teaching and learning practices in higher education. In this case study, descriptions of blended learning support for facilitating student learning, and of the main barrier to its implementation are provided. Based on what was learned in the exploratory study, the chapter provides working guidelines for designing and developing blended learning support, mainly drawing from Butler and Cartier’s (2004) research on academic engagement.

The Parental Perspective over the Use of iPads in Primary and Middle Years of Schooling

2020 ◽  
pp. 773-786
Author(s):  
Abdullah Ismail ◽  
Anthony Cashin
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Published Research

Apple's iPad and other forms of tablet are reportedly gaining increasing popularity within the academic premises. Most of the published research on this topic has highly admired the positive role and impact of iPads on teaching and learning practices, as if an exogenous technological induction in any local context would essentially revolutionize and transform the whole educational paradigm; however, some recent publications also highlight the parental and policy-makers' concerns over the undesired consequences of technological obsession in educational development. The current study aims at bringing a balanced view on this crucially important topic. The study employs mixed methods research and it uses Ajman Academy, a renowned K-12 institution in the United Arab Emirates, as a case study. This research concludes that due to the relative immaturity of these young children, they cannot be left alone to make their own technological choices. Hence, adopting an over-ambitious approach in terms of technological adoption, without properly understanding the nuances and complexities of a local context; may possibly put these children in a vulnerable situation, and thus likely exposed to many unintended and undesired consequences.

scholarly journals On the Verbal Expression of Emotions: Language and Emotion Interplays

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2 (12)) ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Ani Stepanyan
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Verbal Expression ◽  
Precise Information ◽  
Verbal Descriptions ◽  
Expression Of Emotions

In pre-historic times people used to communicate with each other through grunts, barks and roars. They gradually developed an elaborate set of sounds to express their emotions and convey their messages. Now it is the systematic use of language that differentiates human beings from animals. The interpersonal communication of emotional states is fundamental to everyday verbal interactions, and the way these emotions are expressed and understood is important in cross-cultural and interpersonal relationships. The verbal descriptions of emotional states can provide quite precise information about different forms of emotions.

scholarly journals International Students’ Experience of Western Pedagogy in a British University

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 620
Author(s):  
Linda Katherine Newsome ◽  
Paul Cooper
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Far Eastern

<em>This qualitative study examined international students’ experiences with Western pedagogy using data collected through case studies and semi-structured, in-depth, informant style interviews. Participants were all international students (n=18), mostly postgraduate from Asian and Far Eastern countries studying at a British University. This paper focuses on students’ engagements with Western pedagogy as they struggle to adjust to what they experience as unfamiliar and alien approaches to teaching and learning. Reported here is a detailed case study of the lives of these students as they engage with specific pedagogical demands, including: academic self-expression and critical argumentation, self-directed learning, class discussions, presentations, and English language proficiency. It also exposes students’ perceptions of the value of the instructional methods of their tutors and their impact on approaches to learning.</em>

scholarly journals Kreativitas Seorang Pelatih dalam Membangun Motivasi Berlatih pada Pemain Futsal (Studi Kasus Conan Futsal Academy)

Koneksi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 358
Author(s):  
Vicky Finley Sutirta ◽  
Gregorius Genep Sukendro
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Study Methods ◽  
Personal Assistance ◽  
Creative Power ◽  
Case Study Methods

Creativity is a person's ability to produce new compositions or anything that is a new foundation and previously unknown by the creator. Creativity is the ability to think to achieve varied and new results and the ability to be applied both in the fields of science, sports, literature and other fields of life can be used with creativity. Development of creativity to develop skills to combine creative power with experience, insight, and relationships with the environment for the better. Interpersonal communication theory that discusses the stages of interpersonal relationships, factors that influence interpersonal relationships. The purpose of interpersonal communication is to create motivation. This motivation is the ability of a coach in building the motivation of the players at Conan Futsal Academy. By using interpersonal communication, coaches use personal assistance to build players so they can help in training. The methodology in this study uses qualitative case study methods. Data collection obtained by interview, observation and literature study.Kreativitas adalah kemampuan seseorang untuk menghasilkan komposisi baru atau gagasan apa saja yang menjadi dasarnya baru dan sebelumnya tidak dikenal oleh pembuatnya. Kreativitas adalah kemampuan berpikir untuk meraih hasil yang variatif dan baru serta memungkinkan untuk diaplikasikan baik dalam bidang keilmuan, keolahragaan, kesusastraan maupun bidang kehidupan yang lain dapat berkaitan dengan kreativitas. Pengembangan kreativitas proses untuk mengembangkan kemampuan untuk mengkombinasikan daya kreatif dengan pengalaman, wawasan, maupun hubungan dengan lingkungan menjadi lebih baik. Teori komunikasi interpersonal mencakup tahapan hubungan interpersonal, faktor yang mempengaruhi hubungan interpersonal. Tujuan komunikasi interpersonal tersebut untuk menciptakan motivasi. Motivasi ini merupakan kemampuan dari seorang pelatih dalam membangun motivasi para pemain yang ada di Conan Futsal Academy. Dengan menggunakan komunikasi interpersonal pelatih menggunakan pendekatan secara personal untuk membangun motivasi pemain agar dapat semangat dalam berlatih. Metodologi dalam penelitian ini menggunakan kualitatif dengan metode studi kasus. Pengumpulan data yang didapat yaitu dengan wawancara, observasi dan studi kepustakaan.

scholarly journals Motivation of Taking Distance-Learning and Online Programmes: A Case Study in a TAFE Institution in Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Luis M. Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
International Students ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Career Goals ◽  
Academic Courses ◽  
Online Distance Learning ◽  
Online Distance

The distance-learning and online courses and programmes are popular during the COVID-19 Pandemic due to the recommendation of social distancing and closure of borders in Australia. The purpose of this study is to explore and understand the motivation and decision-making processes of international students who continue their academic courses and programmes using online distance-learning platforms under the COVID-19 Pandemic. With the case study design, the researcher recruited 20 international students who are currently completing their academic courses and programmes through distance-learning from a Technical and Future Education (TAFE) institution in Australia. Based on the Social Cognitive Career and Motivation Theory, the researcher categorised that the educational achievements and career goals, the achievements of education and career goals, and interests in career development drove the factors of their motivation and career-decision-making process. The results of this study will provide a blueprint for school leaders, department heads, government agencies, policymakers, and researchers to reform and upgrade the current curriculum for technologically-assisted teaching and learning strategies and international students’ experiences.   Received: 16 June 2021 / Accepted: 11 August 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021

scholarly journals Online Instruction Based on Task-based Language Teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. p30
Author(s):  
Liu Zhixuan
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
English Class ◽  
Teachers And Students

The outbreak of the COVID-19 caused many Chinese universities to initiate online teaching. This paper aimed to develop Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) practices in online courses to enable teachers and students in China to employ TBLT appropriately and effectively. This research made a case study which was conducted as an online English class with a total of 28 undergraduate students at a university in Guangdong, China. The findings show that the transition from the traditional classroom to online education was successful. This innovative teaching mode promotes students to become the initiator of learning. Besides, the switched roles between students and teachers, advantages as well as problems of this approach have been pointed out. This case study could provide pedagogical implicatures for online English teaching and learning practically and theoretically, which helps to develop new forms that could assist teachers and students to adopt TBLT in class.

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