Use Of Communication Strategies Research Articles

How Does a Face Mask Impact Speech Perception?

Face masks are mandatory during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to attenuation of sound energy and loss of visual cues which are important for communication. This study explores how a face mask affects speech performance for individuals with and without hearing loss. Four video recordings (a female speaker with and without a face mask and a male speaker with and without a face mask) were used to examine individuals’ speech performance. The participants completed a listen-and-repeat task while watching four types of video recordings. Acoustic characteristics of speech signals based on mask type (no mask, surgical, and N95) were also examined. The availability of visual cues was beneficial for speech understanding—both groups showed significant improvements in speech perception when they were able to see the speaker without the mask. However, when the speakers were wearing the mask, no statistical significance was observed between no visual cues and visual cues conditions. Findings of the study demonstrate that provision of visual cues is beneficial for speech perception for individuals with normal hearing and hearing impairment. This study adds value to the importance of the use of communication strategies during the pandemic where visual information is lost due to the face mask.

The Influence of Marketing Communication Strategies on Fandom Development in Tanzania: A Case of Selected Premier League Football Clubs

The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of marketing communication strategies on fandom development in Tanzania: A case of selected premier league football clubs. The study specifically assessed the influence of advertising on club’s fandom development; explored the influence of social media on club’s fandom development; and to assess the influence of corporate social responsibility on club’s fandom development in Tanzania. The targeted population was 910 fans whereby from this population sample size of 185 fans was drawn. The research employed descriptive research design where mixed research approach was applied. Simple random sampling was used to select fans of Simba SC and Mbeya City FC while purposive sampling technique was used to select clubs’ leaders. The findings revealed that advertising strategy, the use of social media and involvement in corporate social responsibility have a great influence in football clubs’ fandom development in Tanzania. The adjusted R2 of the regression output was equals to 0.667 implying that the model explains about 66.7% variations in the clubs’ fandom development. Therefore, advertising strategy, social media and corporate social responsibility were significant predictors of clubs’ fandom development in Tanzania premier league football clubs. Therefore, the study concludes that marketing communication strategy is of vital in influencing fandom development in football clubs. The study recommends that for a club to expand its fandom, its marketing communication strategy should be set in such a way that it can easily be accessed by the majority of the public. Its contents and mode of delivering should be touching the majority of the public. Clubs are required to innovate and intensify the use of effective and efficient marketing communication strategies in promoting clubs’ brand to the public.

A Case Study of Communication Strategies Used by Thai Business Students in an English Online Job Interview Test

Developing speaking skills for foreign language learners is challenging. Whenever they speak foreign languages, they often encounter communication problems because of their limited grammatical and discourse competence. To overcome the problems, language learners need to employ communication strategies. Previous studies stated that these strategies were valuable for learners in speaking a target language; however, they mainly examined the students’ use of communication strategies in general speaking situations. Thus, the present study aims to explore types and levels of communication strategies used by Thai business students majoring in accounting and to investigate their communication problems during an English online job interview test. The participants were 35 Thai undergraduates. The 35-item self-report communication strategy questionnaire and a semi-structured interview were used to collect the data. The data was analyzed through the IBM SPSS statistical analysis software and the content analysis. The findings indicated that the participants were strategic users. The overall mean of the participants’ communication strategy use was at a high level ( = 3.59). The most frequently used communication strategies were strategies for understanding interlocutor’s messages (UIM) which was at a high level ( = 3.84). The participants selected to use nonverbal language the most such as body language ( = 4.45). The main problems which they experienced during the English online job interview test were unknown vocabulary and listening problems. Furthermore, most participants preferred attending an online interview test to an onsite interview test.

A scoping review protocol of non-verbal communication utilised in peri-interventive dental and medical procedures

Introduction: Dental operative procedures, by their interventive nature, impede the opportunity for peri-intervention verbal communication between patients and clinicians. This can impair trust, consent, and shared decision making with the potential of adversely affecting patient dignity, and potentially resulting in suboptimal clinical outcomes. This scoping review aims to interrogate the literature concerning non-verbal communication methods used in dental and medical practices during peri-interventive procedures, in aiding communication between clinician and patient. We will also ascertain how these align with the Limited Capacity Model of Motivated Mediated Message Processing (LC4MP) communication theory. Methods: The framework proposed by the Joanna Briggs Institute and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis extension for scoping reviews, will be used to guide this scoping review and reporting methodology. Selected electronic databases (Medline, Embase, Cochrane Library and Scopus), PsychInfo, CINAHL and grey literature sources will be searched. Inclusion criteria are: articles written in the English language, publications between 2000 and 2020, peer-reviewed empirical studies, with either qualitative or quantitative data, mixed methods, reviews, book chapters and grey literature with a principal focus on non-verbal communication in the healthcare setting. A narrative synthesis will be conducted, with results reported according to elements of LCM4P theory: cognitive load, motivated messaging, message processing and memory. Conclusion: This scoping review will contribute to our methodological and theoretical understanding of the use of non-verbal communication strategies in clinical settings.

The Impact of Amplification on Cognitive Screening Test Scores.

Hearing loss is associated with cognitive decline in older adults. Research has shown that hearing loss negatively affects cognitive screening test measures as patients may mishear verbally administered questions. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the impact of amplification on performance on a commonly used cognitive screening test. Thirty older adults with hearing loss underwent testing with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in three conditions: without hearing aids, with hearing aids, and with a personal listening device (PLD). Performance on the MMSE significantly improved with the use of hearing aids or a PLD. Amplification and the use of communication strategies should be considered when administering cognitive screening measures to older adults. Failure to account for hearing status may lead to invalid results and can increase the likelihood of over-referral for further assessment. [Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 48(7), 31-37.].

Balancing The Use of Oral Communication Strategies and Fear for Oral Presentation: The Case for Language Learning

Balancing The Use of Oral Communication Strategies and Fear for Oral Presentation: The Case for Language Learning

EXPLORING THE USE OF COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN ORAL COMMUNICATION

<p>There are many types of oral communicant, and they serve different functions. In the classroom settings, one-to-one communication between students and instructors or even between students and their peers are important interactions. For effective communication to take place, the speakers need to use communication strategies. What are some aspects that hinder or encourage effective communication? This study is done to explore the communication strategies used by learners in the classroom context. In the context of this study, two views of communication strategies are investigated, and they are (a) Interactional view, which is used to avoid disruptions in communication, and (b) Psycholinguistic view which is used to solve the communicator’s problem to fill in the gaps in communication. The instrument used in this study is a survey with two main sections: interactional view and psycholinguistic view. The interactional view is measured by 12 items while the psycholinguistic view is measured by 14 items. Findings revealed interesting discoveries about the interactional and psycholinguistic views when it comes to the use of communication strategies to help language learners reduce their fear of learning the language. The findings bear interesting implications in the teaching of language to provide learners with a positive learning experience.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0905/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

The colors of ideology: Chromatic isomorphism and political party logos

Despite growing attention to electoral brands, political scientists have largely remained “color blind,” neglecting parties’ chromatic choices. Moreover, scholars dedicated limited attention to how party organizations converge on the use of similar structures and communication strategies, thereby engaging in a process of institutional isomorphism. We seek to simultaneously fill both gaps by examining the logos of more than 300 parties in 35 democracies during the latest political elections. Our findings show that a strong relationship exists between ideology and the use of certain color hues: left-wing party logos mainly display hues at the red end of the color spectrum, while blue hues prevail among right-wing parties. Likeminded parties’ chromatic isomorphism, however, is moderated by country and party-specific factors. Notably, the correlation between color hue and ideology is stronger in Western Europe and among older parties.

TELECOLLABORATIVE DEBATES IN ESP: LEARNER PERCEPTIONS AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

This article reports on an empirical study analyzing the development and use of effective multimodal communication strategies to deliver a telecollaborative debate as the core activity for upper-intermediate learners of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) from two far afield Spanish universities, one located in Gran Canaria and the other in Valencia. The pedagogical project not only focused on preparing and conducting an online debate through telecollaboration, but also on developing communicative skills based on discussion, argumentation, justification, critical thinking and explanation using academic and scientific language. Through a pre-task and a post-task survey, the results highlight, on the one hand, that telecollaboration is an experiential approach for ESP learners that necessarily has to involve pragmatics within a well-organized debate scenario and, on the other, that this two-way collaborative task demonstrates that telecollaborative debates are an innovative and engaging means of exploring not just content but communication and performance strategies while simultaneously helping to increase multimodal communicative fluency in the foreign language. The findings also underline the fact that elements such as motivation and self-confidence are variables that influence the learners’ performance in both conducting the necessary research to adequately debate the given topic and seeking efficient multimodal communication strategies.

How politicians adapt to new media logic. A longitudinal perspective on accommodation to user-engagement on Facebook

ABSTRACT The expansion of the Internet, especially social media, enables political actors to address voters directly. However, on social media, where user interactions factor into the algorithmically determined relevance of messages and, in turn, their spread, political actors have to use communication features that entice users to interact with their messages. Taking mediatization theory as a starting point, I transferred assumptions about accommodation into the domain of social media. By conducting a content analysis of Facebook posts made by members of the Bundestag, the German Parliament, from 2010 to 2015, I analyzed whether political actors had adapted their communication to social media logic and more often used message features previously demonstrated to increase the number of interactions. Among the results, politicians had increasingly used message features that had previously raised the number of interactions, including new technical opportunities and social affordances on Facebook, whereas their use of established communication strategies had remained relatively stable. At the individual level, politicians with higher status were more likely to incorporate successful strategies, which suggests that accommodation is constrained by available resources.

An Investigation of Classroom Communication Strategies Across Discipline

In the classroom, communication is the defining factor for many things. It defines how well the class is organised. It also defines how well the teaching and learning have progressed. Effective communication keeps learners engaged in the activities. Therefore, the use of appropriate communication strategies is important in order for the conveyance of information to take place. This study is done to investigate the use of verbal and non-verbal strategies by engineering and social science students. The instrument used is a survey with 3 main sections. The first section contains items for the demographic profile. The second section has 9 items for verbal strategies and the third section has 17 items for non-verbal strategies. for verbal strategies, students from social sciences were more concerned with their audience before the verbal interactions. Students from engineering were more concerned with the audience’s reaction to what they said. Next, when it comes to non-verbal strategies, findings in this current study showed that the learners from social sciences used more fillers for communication when they do not know how to express what they wanted to convey. Students from social sciences used more verbal strategies than students from engineering. On the other hand, engineering used as many non-verbal strategies as social science students. The findings of this study have interesting pedagogical implications for the teaching and learning of communication strategies for students of various disciplines.

Societal Evaluation of Bioeconomy Scenarios for Germany

Transitioning to a bio-based economy is widely perceived as a necessary way to tackle climate change and other key environmental challenges. Given the major socio-economic consequences that such a transition entails for people’s everyday lives, it is crucial to take account of citizens’ perceptions and levels of acceptance of these changes. This study applies a holistic approach to gain an understanding of how citizens in Germany assess possible developments associated with transitioning to a bioeconomy. We developed three future scenarios modelling the impacts on people’s day-to-day lives of adopting different elements of a bioeconomy and of replacing fossil resources with biogenic resources to a lesser or greater extent by 2050. German citizens were asked to evaluate the different scenarios through a quantitative online survey. Although the respondents largely preferred the scenario of “Bioeconomy Change” entailing the most substantial changes in resource use, many also expressed concerns about the possible negative socio-economic effects of this scenario, including fears of increased product prices, declining living standards, and greater social injustice. The results show that younger people and women are more in favour of changes towards a bioeconomy than men and older people. Since the acceptance of bio-technical innovations increases with greater knowledge about such innovations and their usefulness, the transformation process must make use of sound communication strategies that involve all societal groups by engaging them in constructive dialogue.

Expanding the conversation: A Person-centred Communication Enhancement Model

The intricacy and impact of human communication has long captured the attention of philosophers, scholars and practitioners. Within the realm of care and service provision, efforts to maximize outcomes through optimal person-provider communication have drawn research and clinical focus to this area for several decades. With the dawning of the person-centred care movement within healthcare, and in particular long-term care home and dementia care settings, improvement in care providers’ use of person-centred communication strategies and enhancement of relationships between residents, their families and care providers are desired outcomes. Thus, several person-centred care and communication theoretical perspectives have been employed to ground study in this field. However, a comprehensive theoretical position to underpin person-centred communication in dementia and older adult research does not exist to our knowledge. To offer expansion to the theoretical work in this emerging field, a Person-Centred Communication Enhancement Model for long-term care and dementia care is proposed, as well as rationale for its development. This discussion will also provide an overview and critique of the extant philosophies, theories, frameworks and models that have been utilized in the study of person-centred communication within the context of long-term care and dementia care.

KOMUNIKASI POLITIK MUHAMMAD DWIKI RAMADHANI DALAM MEREBUT DUKUNGAN KALANGAN GENERASI MILENIAL PADA PEMILU 2019

This study examines the political communication strategy of 22-year-old Muhammad Dwiki Ramadhani who was able to win the 2019 election so that he became the youngest member of the Tangerang City DPRD from the millennials. The importance of studying communication strategy as one of the studies of political communication strategies, in addition to enriching the study of science from political communication strategies and can also be used in this case Public Relations and political consultants to apply political communication strategies so that they can win elections with the right political communication strategies. The purpose of this study is to analyze the political communication strategy of the millennial generation so that it becomes one of the concepts offered for the use of political communication strategies. This research uses qualitative research methods with the type of case study research, where researchers in collecting data use in-depth interviews and observation and documentation studies. So that scientific studies of political communication strategies are described in depth. The results showed that Muhammad Dwiki Ramdhani's political communication strategy applied political communication management theory through the stages of segmenting, targeting, and positioning.

Why are Variation and English as a Lingua Franca Important Tools within the EFL Class?

This article focuses on the importance of variation and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) within the EFL class, as this language shows a plurality of native and non-native varieties. Most of the interactions take place between speakers of different L1, where ELF works as a shared code. Concerning variation, this study highlights how its use allows learners to mirror the cultural identity of their interlocutors by developing extremely effective mutual understanding. Finally, examples of experience-based activities show how the use of communication strategies elicits important life skills, whose development is strongly recommended by Agenda 2030.

Communication strategies used by Parkinson's nurse specialists during healthcare interactions: A qualitative descriptive study.

AimTo explore the range and use of communication strategies by Parkinson's nurse specialists, and describe key communication strategies, to support health professionals in their healthcare interactions with people with Parkinson's.DesignA qualitative descriptive study.MethodsDue to the COVID‐19 pandemic, the study took place in an online setting. Online semi‐structured interviews were conducted with eight Australian Parkinson's nurse specialists and one UK Parkinson's nurse between August and October of 2020. Interviews explored healthcare communication, specifically (1) ways Parkinson's nurse specialists support communication during healthcare interactions, (2) factors influencing the use of communication strategies, and (3) how the nurses learned to communicate effectively with people with Parkinson's disease. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyse the data.ResultsParkinson's nurse specialists described the importance of establishing strong therapeutic relationships, the key role of the communication partner, adapting communication to reduce cognitive load, ensuring two‐way understanding, and enabling expressive communication for people with Parkinson's. Knowing the person and family, knowing the disease and understanding the symptoms appeared to influence the choice of communication strategies in healthcare interactions. Learning through others, learning through experience and learning through education and research were considered important parts of becoming a skilled healthcare communicator when working with people with Parkinson's.ConclusionKnowledge and use of effective communication strategies to support people with Parkinson's is crucial for all health professionals working with this population, in order to reduce the occurrence of poor healthcare outcomes. A deep understanding of how Parkinson's disease affects communication and experience in implementing communication strategies were reported as contributing to the success of Parkinson's nurses in communicating with their patients.ImpactThis study provides a description of the key, translational communication strategies that can be used by all health professionals to support healthcare interactions with people with Parkinson's.

A scoping review of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) interventions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)

Currently, a small number of studies discuss augmentative and alternative (AAC) interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The primary purpose of this scoping review was to summarize the current evidence base on communication-based interventions and partner training in LMICs, to explore and identify gaps in the AAC evidence base and guide future research. A total of 18 studies were identified. The results revealed many positive outcomes arising from AAC interventions, including increased communication, improved participation, increased knowledge about communication, and increased use of partner communication strategies, thus adding to the evidence base that AAC can be successfully implemented in LMICs. However, these studies did not broadly represent most LMICs and there were only a handful of indirect intervention studies training communication partners. To this end, there is an urgent need to expand the level of AAC intervention research conducted in LMICs in order to better serve individuals with complex communication needs living in these countries.

Sport Knowledge: The Effects of Division I Coach Communication on Student-Athlete Learning Indicators

Sporting environments are informal contexts of learning that are dependent upon coaches’ use of effective instructional communication strategies. Coaches’ use of power while communicating instruction to athletes is especially germane, as coaches must appropriately use relational influence to inspire optimal athletic performance. Using French and Raven’s power bases (i.e., expert, referent, reward, legitimate, and coercive power), this study considers Division I student-athletes’ reports of affective learning for their sport and coaches, cognitive learning, state motivation, and team winning percentages as a function of their coaches’ use of power. Data collected from 170 student-athletes participating in team sports at Power 5 institutions revealed two significant canonical correlation roots. The first demonstrated that the increased use of prosocial power and avoidance of antisocial power were associated with greater amounts of affective learning for coaches, cognitive learning, and state motivation. The second revealed that expert power was associated with increases in cognitive learning and winning. This research has heuristic implications for expanding the assessment of athlete experience, as well as practical implications regarding the identification of effective modes of relational influence in coaching.

A theory-based video intervention to enhance communication and engagement in online health communities: two experiments

ABSTRACT Background Online communities and social networking sites have great potential for supporting health behavior change. However, interventions vary greatly in participants’ engagement rates and, consequently, their effectiveness. Theory-based interventions in real-world contexts are needed to further increase engagement and effectiveness. Methods We experimentally tested whether a video intervention teaching Self-Determination-Theory-based communication strategies increases need-supportive communication strategy use over one week (Study 1, N = 76) and perceived need support, engagement, and goal attainment in a behavior change intervention supported by a forum-based online community (Study 2, N = 537). In Study 2, participants chose a goal (increasing either fruit or vegetable consumption or increasing moderate or vigorous physical activity) and joined an online community for 2 weeks. Data from both experiments were analyzed with mixed models and follow-up tests. Results In Study 1, participants in the intervention but not in the control group showed an increase in the number of need-supportive communication strategies used both immediately and one week after the intervention (condition × time interaction, partial η 2 = 0.31). In Study 2, participants who watched the intervention video had a higher number of postings and reported a higher subjective forum use frequency (but not a higher number of logins) compared to participants who watched the control video. However, the effect on the subjective forum visit frequency was not robust. There were no intervention effects on perceived need support, goal attainment, or secondary outcomes. The results might be explained by low application of need-supportive communication strategies. Conclusion A brief video intervention may be a suitable, low-cost intervention to promote need-supportive communication strategy use, benefitting both engagement and behavior change. Future studies should incorporate additional means to further improve communication strategy uptake and engagement in online communities.

The Impact of Task Type on Iraqi EFL Learners' Use of Communication Strategies

This study is aimed at investigating the impact of task type on Iraqi EFL learners' use of communication strategies (henceforth CSs) when they communicate orally in English. To answer the research question and accomplish its aim, three oral tasks were employed: a one-way task (picture description task), and two two-way tasks (information-gap task and opinion-gap task). the tasks were carried out in the in-person, and under the researcher's monitoring. The sample of the study were (56) sophomores in the Department of English-College of Education University of Mosul, of the academic year 2020-2021. The results revealed that task type had an impact on the number of CSs used. It was found that opinion-gap task elicited the highest number of interactional, reduction, and time-gaining strategies, whereas picture description task elicited the highest number of self-solving strategies.