Role In Oral Communication Research Articles

Conversational agent in HCI a review

Nowadays, AI technology is developing rapidly and slowly covering all areas of life. AI facilitates different parts of our lives and provides us with a lot of help. For example, in learning, students can acquire knowledge more conveniently through AI, and buyers can find suitable goods more conveniently through AI when shopping. At the same time, more and more technology is used in the field of voice agents, which allows humans to enjoy a lot of better services. In this article, we will study to better understand "how to understand human natural language and how the repository of knowledge is built." In the article we build with examples and deep learning models (CNN and RNN) through databases. Through repeated research and analysis, we can find that there are some limitations in this paper, such as the single learning model and the insufficient elaboration of data analysis and signal system technology. But at the same time, we also found a lot of future application prospects that voice agents can develop, it can be applied in many fields, such as finance, medical care, education and so on. For example, in children's education, parents can use voice agents to set time limits and monitor their children's progress. Existing digital interactive storytelling systems have limitations in terms of available storybooks and hand-crafted issues. Voice agents are becoming more popular in everyday scenarios, and more users are adopting devices like Siri and Google Assistant. In the future, conversational agents are expected to play an important role in oral communication with users.

LACK OF READING HABITS AND VOCABULARY AMONG FRESHMEN AFFECTS ACADEMIC PERFOMANCE

The main idea to publish this article is to recognize the importance of a lack of reading habits and vocabulary; as an essential aspect to having good communication, especially when people start to learn a new language, in this case, English as a second language. Herewith there are some of the reasons that lack of reading habits and vocabulary are affecting the student's academic perfomance. Thus, vocabulary learning verifies to play an important role in oral communication. Reading proficiency is the key to knowledge. In modern life, reading depends on the individual's capacity to interpret printed or electronic pages fully and accurately. The overall objective of this research was to examine how the lack of reading habits and vocabulary is affecting academic performance. The justification for this article is based on the identification of these main problems freshmen are facing, and how there issues are affecting the academic performance of students at the university level. Is importan to recognize the importance of the parents in the acquisition of good reading habits. And of course at the school level form part of the teachers, to promote good reading habits in order for students will not have difficulties in their academic performance.

Implementation of Problem-Based Learning Model in Improving Speaking Skills for Part-Time Students at A Higher Education Institution in Semarang

<p><span lang="EN-US">The ability to communicate verbally is considered to be one of the important factors for basic language skills. This competency plays a significant role in oral communication. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not the use of a model called Problem-Based Learning (PBL) might help students enhance their speaking ability. PBL is one of the learning models that can be used in language classes because the focus of the learning model is involving students in the learning process. The PBL model encourages meaningful interactions for the working students who study in part-time class as the special program. Since the students must be trained to practice speaking English. Therefore, speaking competence can be achieved through the activities. Observation and a questionnaire were the two techniques that were used to collect the data. The results showed that the PBL model used by the lecturer in the teaching and learning process that focuses on the discussion to get the alternative solution deeply can make students understand every detail in practicing speaking with real-life issues that require real-life solutions. Thus, this study implied that PBL as a learning model for English subjects was appropriate to make students fluent to communicate in English</span></p>

Transition from Gesture and Gesture Nomination to Phraseology

Based on the material of several languages, semantic transitions from gestural nominations to gestural phraseological units, as well as the development of figurative meanings of gestural units are considered. The subject of the study is emblems — communicative gestures containing information that a person intentionally conveys to the addressee, and symptomatic gestures — gestures that express the emotional state of the gesticulator. The study showed that the transition from gestural nomination to gestural phraseology is often accompanied by a change in the actant structure of the original unit. One of the signs of the transition from gesture to gesture phraseology is the generalization of the situation — the generalization of one of the actants of the situation, which is expressed by the presence in the sentence of quantifier units that form universal noun phrases with nouns. Idiomatization of gestural units in different languages has both similarities and differences: differences in the meaning of phraseological units built on the basis of gestural units of the same semantics, or differences in the derivational potential of similar gestural units in different languages. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that gestures play a huge role in oral communication, and the fact that it was carried out in line with such areas as the construction of explanatory models of language and semantic typology.

THE ROLE OF OCCASIONAL WORDS IN INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

Nonce (occasional) words have mainly been studied as means to solve immediate problems of communication in spoken language and as stylistic devices in written language. Obviously, little attention has been paid to their specific role in oral communication while the research of occasional words in real interpersonal communication reveals the dynamic tendency of language development. The present paper is an attempt to reveal structural, semantic and pragmatic features of occasional words taken from live communication. It is based on the study of a set of occasional words that reveal the daily changes in the language and the role of those words in oral speech.

“Read It Like You Mean It”: Developing Prosodic Reading Using Reader’s Theater

Prosody is a linguistic feature in spoken English that is complex yet plays an important role in oral communication. Nevertheless, many EFL pronunciation classes in Thailand have not adequately emphasized the importance and functions of prosody to learners. This research study aims to investigate effect of an oral fluency instructional method called Reader’s Theater on Thai EFL university students’ perception and production of the prosodic features of pausing and sentence final intonation. The participants of this study are 22 Thai university students majoring in English. The results revealed that the students’ perception of these prosodic features increased and that the production of prosody shows correlation with comprehensibility. These results also suggest that effective modelling of oral fluency as an input is crucial to the perception of learners, and ultimately that prosody should be implemented in pronunciation classes in the EFL curriculum.

Measuring the speech level and the student activity in lecture halls: Visual- vs blind-segmentation methods

The background noise has a fundamental role in oral communication, since the higher the speech level with respect to the background noise the greater the intelligibility. In occupied lecture halls the main contribution to background noise is related to the human noise, which is called by scholars student activity. Scholars proposed methods to measure both student activity and speech level through short-time sound level meter measurements during lessons. However, a comparison of their relative effectiveness on a relevant set of data in different situations is still lacking. In this study, basing on recordings of university lessons performed with public address system, student activity and speech level values were extracted using different methods. Various scenarios of university lectures were recorded: frontal lessons, media-aided lectures, open discussions. Visual-segmentation and blind-segmentation procedures were compared for each case. Results show the benefits of blind-segmentation methods, which seem to be reliable and affordable methods for this kind of analyses.

On the Implications of Conversation Analysis for College Oral English Teaching

College English is an important basic course in China’s higher education. Its quality is related to the talents’ cultivation and their practical working ability in the 21st century. Although most Chinese college students are proficient in English reading and writing, their oral English abilities are relatively weak. As is known to all, conversation plays an irreplaceable role in oral communication, and a host of scholars and educators have advocated including authentic conversations into college oral English teaching. However, their studies are mostly concerned with only a specific interactional practice of conversation, and there lacks a systemic study on the comprehensive application of conversations to oral English teaching. As a sociological research method, Conversation Analysis is aimed to study the social practices of talk and the social norm behind these conversational practices. The findings of Conversation Analysis have shown some potential in oral English teaching. Based on the current situation of Chinese college oral English teaching, the present study first explores the applicability of Conversation Analysis to college oral English teaching, then attempts to construct a practical oral English teaching model for college students in terms of four typical interactional organizations in conversation, viz. turn-taking organization, adjacency pairs, preference organization and repair organization, so as to effectively cultivate their communicative and interactive English skills and enhance their all-round practical capabilities to use English as a whole.

The Role of Vocabulary Knowledge in Speaking Development of Saudi EFL Learners

Speaking in a foreign language is considered to be a challenging aspect of language learning that demands competence and mastery in learning any foreign language. Vocabulary learning verifies to play an important role in oral communication. However, literature lacks the studies where both English as a foreign language (EFL) students and teachers’ views are obtained to provide analyses of the situations in which learners are not showing desired results in speaking. The current study explores the problems of lack of vocabulary that Saudi EFL students face with special focus on their speaking proficiency. It aims to seek EFL teachers’ opinions on the extent to which lack of vocabulary has influence on EFL students’ performance in listening, and conversation classes, and in expressing their ideas and feelings, and especially in speaking skill. A questionnaire was used for the responses from the students and an interview for the teachers to reveal their perceptions about the vocabulary hindrance in speaking skills. 20 EFL instructors and teachers of Preparatory Year Program (PYP) section of a public university and 110 EFL students participated in this study. The analysis of the data showed that both teachers and learners indicated that lack of vocabulary is one of the major factors in students’ inability to speaking English. In the current study, among many other suggestions it is proposed that the inclusion of mobile assisted language learning could be useful way of developing vocabulary for spoken proficiency of Saudi EFL learners.

The Role of Vocabulary Knowledge in Speaking Development of Saudi EFL Learners

Speaking in a foreign language is considered to be a challenging aspect of language learning that demands competence and mastery in learning any foreign language. Vocabulary learning verifies to play an important role in oral communication. However, literature lacks the studies where both English as a foreign language (EFL) students and teachers’ views are obtained to provide analyses of the situations in which learners are not showing desired results in speaking. The current study explores the problems of lack of vocabulary that Saudi EFL students face with special focus on their speaking proficiency. It aims to seek EFL teachers’ opinions on the extent to which lack of vocabulary has influence on EFL students’ performance in listening, and conversation classes, and in expressing their ideas and feelings, and especially in speaking skill. A questionnaire was used for the responses from the students and an interview for the teachers to reveal their perceptions about the vocabulary hindrance in speaking skills. 20 EFL instructors and teachers of Preparatory Year Program (PYP) section of a public university and 110 EFL students participated in this study. The analysis of the data showed that both teachers and learners indicated that lack of vocabulary is one of the major factors in students’ inability to speaking English. In the current study, among many other suggestions it is proposed that the inclusion of mobile assisted language learning could be useful way of developing vocabulary for spoken proficiency of Saudi EFL learners.

An Empirical Study on the Acquisition of English Rising Tone by Chinese EFL Learners

Intonation is the melody and soul of speech, and plays an important role in oral communication. Nevertheless, the acquisition of English intonation by Chinese EFL learners is far from being satisfactory. It is found by empirical study that the main problems existing in acquiring English rising tone are improper placement of nucleus stress, failure to control the contour of pitch of nucleus, replacement of rising tone by falling one, epenthesis of extra central vowel after the consonant with which the nucleus or tail ends. The acquisition of rising tone is influenced by lack of intonation knowledge, poor acquisition of stress, differences between English and Chinese tone patterns, etc. One key solution is to imbue the learners with knowledge of intonation by utilizing modern phonological technologies to make possible the multimodal phonological acquisition of intonation so as to improve the learners’ ability of perceiving and producing rising tone.

Do they know that they know? EFL learners’ attitude towards concept mapping in listening comprehension

The ability to listen efficiently plays a key role in oral communication for ESL/EFL students. Scholars in the field have suggested many strategies and methods to improve listening comprehension. One of these methods is concept mapping. However, whether the students actually realize that concept mapping may improve their listening comprehension has not been explored. Therefore, the present study was designed to investigate the effect of applying concept mapping techniques on EFL learners’ attitudes towards using this technique in listening comprehension. To this end, 146 EFL students at the elementary level of language proficiency were selected, and they were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. In the course of eight sessions, the experimental group went under an intervention of concept mapping, during which concept maps were introduced, and the listening paper of the KET was used as practice material. Descriptive statistics and a paired sample t-test that was utilized to analyze the data established that the two groups were significantly different in their listening comprehension ability. In order to assess the participants’ attitudes, before and after the treatment, the researchers administered a self-assessment questionnaire to the participants in the experimental group. The results indicated that the participants felt that using concept mapping strategies significantly improved their listening comprehension. The fact that the participants made this realization indicates that using concept mapping strategies raised the learners’ awareness regarding their listening, and may lead to learner autonomy.

Critical Concerns for Oral Communication Education in Alabama and Beyond

An examination of oral communication education in Alabama (USA) identified four critical concerns. (1) Today's college students are not getting adequate oral communication education. (2) Oral communication education is being relegated to a “module” in another discipline-specific course. (3) When an oral communication course is included in the general education curriculum, that course tends to be narrow rather than broad in scope. (4) An increasing number of college faculty who teach oral communication courses do not have a graduate degree in the discipline. These concerns may be indicative of similar issues affecting oral communication education throughout the United States and beyond. Solutions to each concern are offered, and suggestions are provided about how decision-making bodies like state departments of education, regional accrediting agencies, the National Communication Association, and the like can address these concerns. This paper first examines the essential role of oral communication before identifying four critical concerns and offering suggested solutions for oral communication education in Alabama. These concerns may be indicative of similar issues affecting oral communication regionally, nationally, and even internationally. If so, then the suggested solutions offered herein may provide direction. If not, then being proactive rather than reactive may prevent some or all of these concerns from becoming reality.

Asian pearls

The background noise has a fundamental role in oral communication, since the higher the speech level with respect to the background noise the greater the intelligibility. In occupied lecture halls the main contribution to background noise is related to the human noise, which is called by scholars student activity. Scholars proposed methods to measure both student activity and speech level through short-time sound level meter measurements during lessons. However, a comparison of their relative effectiveness on a relevant set of data in different situations is still lacking. In this study, basing on recordings of university lessons performed with public address system, student activity and speech level values were extracted using different methods. Various scenarios of university lectures were recorded: frontal lessons, media-aided lectures, open discussions. Visual-segmentation and blind-segmentation procedures were compared for each case. Results show the benefits of blind-segmentation methods, which seem to be reliable and affordable methods for this kind of analyses.

Practicing Engineers Talk about the Importance of Talk: A Report on the Role of Oral Communication in the Workplace

In the last decade engineering education and industry have requested assistance from communication educators. Responding to increased attention on the changing expectations for practicing engineers and an attendant need for better communication skills, these teams of engineering and communication educators have been working to incorporate speaking and writing in engineering education. Despite a great deal of anecdotal evidence that communication is important to working engineers, relatively little data based information is available to help us understand better the specifics of how and why communication is important for these particular professionals. This paper reports the results of practicing engineers' descriptions of the importance of oral communication. These data suggest that engineering practice takes place in an intensely oral culture and while formal presentations are important to practicing engineers, daily work is characterized more by interpersonal and small group experiences. Communication skills such as translation, clarity, negotiation, and listening are vital.

The role of oral communication

The role of oral communication

The Role of Oral Communication in the Air Force

The Role of Oral Communication in the Air Force

The role of oral communication in the world today

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