The roles of revision-oriented peer evaluation as pragmatic intervention in web-based ELF communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-99
Author(s):  
Ping Liu ◽  
Huiying Liu
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Peer Evaluation ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Web Based ◽  
American University ◽  
Thematic Content ◽  
Rapport Management ◽  
Online Exchange

Peer evaluation (PE) in web-based English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication demonstrates certain uniqueness in moderating, transforming, or reinforcing linguistic and intercultural competence development. Within the framework of Spencer-Oatey’s (2000, 2008) rapport management framework, this article focuses on the use of revision-oriented peer evaluation (RPE) as a pragmatic intervention, drawing on data from the Cross-Pacific Exchange, an online exchange program between Chinese and American university students. Three types of RPE are identified based on its thematic content: knowledge-sharing, relationship-oriented, and disclaiming. The thematic content analysis hence reveals three major concerns in PE: the knowledge gap between ELF users, interpersonal care, and self-awareness. RPE, as a pragmatic intervention, mainly addresses these three concerns. The frequency and functional analysis of each type of RPE shows that Chinese and American students demonstrate a similar tendency, though their specific ways of intervening are not the same. Their top priorities are to scaffold common-ground construction and attend to interpersonal relationships; their least concern is to protect self/group face and identity, indicating the cooperative, mutually supportive feature of web-based ELF communication.

Metapragmatic comments in web-based intercultural peer evaluation

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Liu ◽  
Xiaoye You
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Peer Evaluation ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Web Based ◽  
American University ◽  
Online Exchange

Abstract Peer evaluation (PE) of student writings is increasingly conducted online these days, creating unique opportunities for intercultural communication. Adopting a socio-cognitive approach and drawing on data from an online exchange program between Chinese and American university students, the study examines how revision-oriented metapragmatic comments (MPCs) are used to adjust the salience of specific contextual factors in three dimensions: information (including socio-cultural, language, and writing knowledge), situational context, and interpersonal relations. The MPCs are found to have substantiated a host of pragmatic strategies, such as patterned moves, foregrounding or backgrounding information, evidentiality markers, dispreferred second turns, and highlighting group identity. Enhancing or degrading the salience of contextual factors, the MPCs facilitate the construction of a common ground between the Chinese and American students in terms of knowledge and personal affiliation. The use of revision-oriented MPCs in PE manifests the collaborative, mutually supportive nature of web-based intercultural communication.

scholarly journals The Psychological Impact of Strict and Prolonged Confinement on Business Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Spanish University

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Garvey ◽  
Inmaculada Jimeno García ◽  
Sara Helena Otal Franco ◽  
Carlos Mir Fernández
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Severe Anxiety

The study was carried out to examine the situation of university students from one month after the beginning of a very strict confinement process in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students responded to a survey which included the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) together with other questions relating to their general well-being from the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS). A total of 198 university students answered the web-based survey. The questionnaire was generated using Microsoft Forms and was explained and distributed online. The results indicated that around 18.7% of students were suffering from severe anxiety and 70.2% were suffering either mild or moderate anxiety at this point of the strict confinement process. The findings show that when emotional well-being (quality of sleep, the perception of feeling fear, death of a relative) is reduced and material well-being is negatively affected (income level) anxiety levels are increased. On the other hand, the results show that having good interpersonal relationships with family members and taking care of personal development (routines and habits that make them feel good) help reduce anxiety levels. The female students in the sample also suffered higher levels of anxiety than males during strict confinement.

(Dis)Ableing Notions of Authentic Leadership Through the Lens of Critical Disability Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Procknow ◽  
Tonette S. Rocco ◽  
Sunny L. Munn
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Deficit Model ◽  
The Disabled

The Problem Persons with disabilities (PWD) are regarded as “the Other” and are sequestered from “normative” society because of their “Otherness.” “Othering” results in discrimination and the systemic preclusion of PWD. Ableism is the belief that being without a disability, impairment, or chronic illness is the norm. The notion that people without disabilities are the norm and are inherently superior is accepted without critique by those that advocate for authentic leadership. This privileges ableism and furthers the “Othering” of PWD within a leadership style intended to promote self-awareness, beliefs and ethics, and interpersonal relationships. The Solution The disabled experience and differently abled voice must be restored through relationally “being” with others and authentic dialogue. What is needed is a shift from the deficit model of authentic leadership to a social paradigm of authentic leadership, welcoming of bodily and psychic difference. This will better enable both leaders and employees to craft an authentic profile in the workplace. The Stakeholders Leaders and those who seek to become leaders following an authentic leadership approach can benefit from a better understanding of how their ingrained belief systems impact those that they lead who are both “able-bodied” and “disabled.” Human resource development (HRD) practitioners and leadership development practitioners can use this information to deconstruct and reconstruct leadership development opportunities to be inclusive as an authentic leader.

scholarly journals Rapport Management in President Buhari and Governor Sanwo-Olu’s Speeches on #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-195
Author(s):  
Samuel Alaba Akinwotu
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Crisis Situation ◽  
Rapport Management ◽  
Essential Tool ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Political Office ◽  
Political Speeches

Speech making in politics is an essential tool used to manage relationships between politicians and the electorate. The success of a speech depends on the content and the discourse and linguistic strategies employed to achieve speakers’ communicative goals. Political speeches have been widely studied, but extant studies have given tangential attention to the management of rapport in speeches of political office holders delivered in crisis situation in Nigeria. Two speeches delivered by President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu (GBS) on the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria, downloaded from www.guardian.ng and www.premiumtimesng.com respectively, were purposively selected and analysed using Rapport Management theory. This is with the view to accounting for the linguistic elements and discourse strategies and their functions in maintaining harmonious relationship in selected texts. Linguistic elements such as the inclusive “we”, the institutional “I”, collective/possessive “us” “our” “your” and descriptive adjectives and strategies such as claiming common ground, expressing solidarity, showing empathy were employed to manage rapport and achieve communicative goals by PMB and GBS. While GBS tactically avoids utterances that are rapport threatening, some utterances of PMB have the tendency to impair rapport. He however mitigates them through hedging, personalisation, institutionalisation and testimonial argument.

scholarly journals Describing Students’ Intercultural Competence after Completing a Cultural Diversity Course Online or Face-to-Face

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-127
Author(s):  
Shalyse I. Iseminger ◽  
Horane A. Diatta-Holgate ◽  
Pamala V. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Online Version ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Diversity Courses ◽  
Diversity Course ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Cultural Self ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

This study describes students’ development of components of intercultural competence after completing a cultural diversity course and compared degrees of intercultural competence between a face-to-face course and an equivalent online section of the same course. Analysis of final written reflections from students demonstrated that students gained a deeper awareness of their lack of knowledge related to culture. The analysis also revealed that students in the online version of the course demonstrated higher degrees of intercultural openness and cultural self-awareness than did those in the face-to-face context. Findings from this study contribute significantly to the research on intercultural competence and the teaching of cultural diversity courses.

scholarly journals The Problem of Individualization in Revealing Humanistic Anthropocentrism of the Renaissance

2020 ◽  
pp. 212-220
Author(s):  
Pavlo PYLYPYSHYN
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Free Market ◽  
World Order ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Individual Values ◽  
Self Knowledge

It has been proved that after the Middle Ages a new philosophical and legal worldview started to shape, which ensured a significant development of the philosophy of law that enabled emerging individualism. In the philosophy of the Renaissance, the problem of individualism changed its vector from the objective world to all spheres of social life that led to a rise of individual consciousness, causing human’s discovery of itself as a subject of activity. It has been established that the changes also occurred in the type of thinking that moved from collectivist to new thinking focused on defending dignity, the value of an individual, showing interest to interpersonal relationships, respect to individual sense of being, increasing attention to the process of self-knowledge, awareness of individual notion of oneself. It has been proved that the Renaissance relieved a human from external authorities and gave him a space of freedom, in which new notions of human’s place in the world appeared: the role of the state in organizing public life, the importance of social and individual values in taking significant decisions. It has been found out that the reasons that contributed to the emergence of a new individualism in the Renaissance era, in our opinion, include: the replacement of Christian theocentrism with humanistic anthropocentrism; integration of aesthetic and moral ideas taken from the ancient world order; the exit of individual freedom of the subjective «I» from the category of universal, denying the fundamental foundations of the latter; growth of intellectual movement; formation of new economic relations based on the freedom of economic entities; growth of free market economy, raising the prestige of educated people; proclamation of the right to individual initiative, self-awareness; the rise of individual religious consciousness; affirmation of the priority of human nature over the immanent reality; human’s discovery of itself as a subject of activity and law; fast growth of interest to self-knowledge, awareness of individual notion of oneself, transformation of a view of human nature and its relationship with the social and legal aspects of life, significance if internal motifs of individual actions as part of social and legal evaluation of an individual, focusing on humanism. Keywords: individualism, individualization, individuality, personality, individual, Renaissance, freedom.

Developing Intercultural Competence and Language Skills Through International Online Collaborative Learning

2018 ◽  
pp. 304-327
Author(s):  
Rieko Saito ◽  
Masako Hayakawa Thor ◽  
Hiroko Inose
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Intermediate Level ◽  
Intercultural Education ◽  
Online Collaborative Learning ◽  
Online Exchange ◽  
Collaborative Language ◽  
Global World

Raising the intercultural competence of learners has been one of the most important issues in language education in this global world, but how can we integrate intercultural education into our teaching? This chapter introduces two online exchange projects, one for the beginner level and one for the intermediate level, which were designed for Swedish learners of Japanese as a means to develop their intercultural competence through collaborative language learning. The projects were designed through collaboration between five universities in Europe and Asia. In this chapter, the authors explore how the intercultural competence of learners developed based on learners' reflections after each session and their answers in the questionnaire after the project. The study finds that the different language levels require teachers to take different approaches in designing the intercultural contents of the projects. The chapter ends with further discussions on how to design intercultural education in an online environment.

Solidarity and Rapport in Social Interaction

2011 ◽  
pp. 934-946
Author(s):  
Jung-ran Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Chat ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines the way online language users enhance social interaction and group collaboration through the computer mediated communication (CMC) channel. For this, discourse analysis based on the linguistic politeness theoretical framework is applied to the transcripts of a real time online chat. Analysis of the data shows that online participants employ a variety of creative devices to signal nonverbal communication cues that serve to build interpersonal solidarity and rapport, as well as by seeking common ground and by expressing agreement online participants increase mutual understanding and harmonious social interaction. This sets the tone of positive interpersonal relationships and decreases the social distance among participants. In turn, this engenders solidarity and proximity, which enhances social interaction through the CMC channel.

Improving Knowledge Management by Supporting Asynchronous Communications with a Debate Dashboard

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-44
Author(s):  
Luca Iandoli ◽  
Ivana Quinto ◽  
Anna De Liddo ◽  
Simon Buckingham Shum
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Research Hypothesis ◽  
Argument Mapping ◽  
Asynchronous Communications ◽  
Online Conversation ◽  
Manage Innovation

In today economic environment, innovation is considered the primary source of competitive advantage for companies. The advent of Web 2.0 tools has provided organizations with new models and tools to improve collaboration and co-creation of new knowledge assets. In particular, the shift to Open Innovation models has been recognized as a major change in the way companies create and manage innovation. In this paper the authors focus on a particular kind of web-based platforms known as argument mapping tools. Argument mapping tools have proved to be valuable tools to the organization to support collaborative decision making in distributed environments, but the level of adoption of these technologies in common organizational practices remains quite low. To tackle this problem, the authors propose to augment common argumentation mapping features with a Debate Dashboard. The research hypothesis the authors make is that by providing visual conversational feedback the Debate Dashboard improves common ground and mutual understanding of online conversation thus supporting users adoption of argument mapping tools. Drawing on Grounding cost theory (Clark & Brennan, 1991; Clark, 1996), in this paper the authors describe the main rationale and requirements for a Debate Dashboard and argue that such interface can provide useful users feedback to compensate for the loss of information due to technology mediation, and therefore improve the communication and mediation abilities of argumentation systems. Moreover the authors describe the design and preliminary results of an evaluation study carried out to assess whether the Debate Dashboard can foster more efficient and easier interaction and communication among online users. Initial results appear to support their research hypothesis, at least in terms of users’ involvement and level of participation. Indeed, from the preliminary analysis it emerges that by augmenting online argument mapping tools with visual feedback users’ performances and users engagement improve, in particular by increasing the total number of user contributions and the number of most active users.

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