How students perceive teachers’ nonverbal and verbal communication at agricultural universities in Austria,Slovenia and Albania

Purpose: This study attempts to close the research gap created by the fact that existing studies neglect the problem of how effectively agricultural professors from different European countries communicate. The aim is to identify similarities and differences in the numbers of agricultural professors perceived by students as engaging in verbal and nonverbal immediacy communication.

Methodology: An online survey was conducted among students of agricultural universities from Austria, Slovenia and Albania.

Findings: The results show that professors of agriculture from Austria, Slovenia and Albania should generally not be satisfied with their own communication patterns and should thus try to improve their communication. The result also reveals cultural differences in the shares of agriculture professors employing different communication patterns in Austria, Slovenia and Albania. Compared to Austrian and Slovenian students, their Albanian peers perceive that most of their professors use nonverbal immediacy communication. According to Austrian students, the majority of their professors use verbal immediacy. On the contrary, Albanian students assessed that some of their professors employ verbal immediacy.

Practical Implications: The results show the professors of agriculture should improve the way they communicate to students. In particular, the Albanian professors should improve their verbal communication especially in terms of providing timely and quality feedback to students.

Theoretical implications: The study reveals differences in immediacy communication among countries (Austria, Slovenia and Albania) which the scientific literature considers to have a high-context culture.

Originality/Value: Given that no study has yet examined how students perceive professors’ communication in different European countries, this research helps understand the characteristics of agricultural professors’ communication.     

英语教学中师生之间的有效交流技巧

师生之间的有效交流是达到教学目标、提高教学质量和效果、增强师生关系和学生学习效率的一个重要方面。通过几年的英语教学实践,认真探讨了有效的交流方法;在实践中探讨了我们在言语交流和非言语交流中值得注意的一些有效技巧,其中有:面部表情、目光接触、姿势、手势语以及身体之间的距离。     

Fashion in the classroom III: Effects of instructor attire and immediacy in natural classroom interactions

This is the third of three studies using complementary designs to investigate the effects of teacher attire on student perceptions of instructors and instruction in contemporary college classrooms. In line with Studies One and Two, modest effects of attire on perceptions of extroversion and competence were found; however, previous conclusions that instructor attire has little meaningful, predictable effect on ratings of attributes related to either approachability or credibility were reinforced. Student judgements of such attributes were influenced far more by teacher use of immediacy behaviors than by attire. In particular, positive effects resulting from teachers’ choice of formal professional attire were not supported.

This is the final study in a three‐part series designed to investigate the implications of instructor attire in the contemporary college classroom. Interest in this topic was sparked by collegial conversations regarding advice for new teaching assistants: What can they do to enhance credibility, approachability, and teacher evaluations? Does what they wear make a difference?     

浅谈国际商务交际中的非语言行为交际

语言是社会交际的工具,是人类文化的载体。非言语行为交际为语言交际起到必要的补充作用。人们在交际中,往往只注重语言交际,而忽略非言语行为交际作为信息传递途径的重要地位。列举很多非语言行为在不同文化中存在差异的例子,讨论非语言行为交际及其在国际商务交际中的重要性,提醒人们重视非语言行为交际在国际商务交际中的作用。     

跨文化商务交际中的语言和非语言因素

影响跨文化商务交际的中英文化差异包括思维方式、价值观念、风俗习惯和语言现象的差异。而这种差异通常会反映在语言和非语言的交流之中,凸显到国际商务的经济运行中便会形成商业冲突。要进行有效的跨文化商务交际,应采取适当的沟通途径,克服文化差异的不利因素,合理利用语言和非语言因素,以加强理解和融合。     

英语翻译学习策略研究

国内外翻译界理论家从三方面对翻译进行了研究：词汇、文学和交际。所有这些研究都只注重翻译的结果，而忽视了翻译的过程。通过实验报告分析，可得出三个结论：翻译有三个阶段，每个阶段学习策略使用的种类和频率各不相同；原文的难易度对使用学习策略有影响；元认知策略和认知策略虽作用不同，但关系密切。     

简述在英语教学中的跨文化交际的教育

大学英语教学在重视培养学生语言能力的同时也要重视培养学生的语用能力、跨文化交际能力和社会文化能力.跨文化交际教育就是要注重培养学生对文化差异的敏感性、宽容性以及处理文化差异的灵活性,以适应日益广泛的国际交流的需要.     

论回馈机制在口语信息沟预测中的综合运用

从宏观上来看,言语信息沟的产生是难以避免的,但从微观上来看,人们是能够对信息沟实施调控的。对信息沟进行准确的预测是调控的前提,而且也是信息沟预测的可行的。探讨了在口语交流中如何运用信息回馈机制对信息沟进行预测和弥合。     

浅谈高校英语语言学教学问题及对策分析

语言学是英语专业的一门基础学科,但是由于其理论性较强,语言学的教学存在教师和学生双方面的问题,本文分析当前高校英语语言学教学的现状及存在的问题并结合笔者的教学实践提出了相应的教学方法与对策。     

翻译中回避策略的运用及教学对策研究

回避策略是学生在学习英语的过程中由于自身语言水平较低时对要表达的内容进行避难就易、避繁就简的选择,是一种消极行为。本文研究了翻译练习中回避策略运用的主要表现方面,并且根据实际情况提出了应对回避策略的教学对策。     

课文分析本质上就是话语的语用分析

以课文为载体和凭借进行的阅读教学应该是也必然是对言语的具体理解和使用的教学,课文分析本质上就是话语的语用分析。阅读教学必须引导学生经历对语用主体在一定情境中的话语表达形式、及其所蕴含内容和所产生效果的分析过程,以此感悟语言魅力、进行语言积累,最终达到提高语言的理解和运用能力的目的。     

论话语语境的信息分布对学习者交际策略的影响

英语教学活动中，话语语境常常影响学生对交际策略的选择，其中信息分布的简约型与密集型对学生选择成就策略或减缩策略起着关键的作用。教师要精心组织教学活动，通过利用话语语境中信息的分布，帮助学生掌握交际策略使用的普遍规律，同时对学生进行交际策略的训练和指导。     

文学翻译中语言审美观差异的处理

文学翻译是比较复杂,比较难以把握的一种翻译类型。主要探讨文学翻译中语言审美观差异的处理,认为译者在翻译过程中应把握译入语共时的特征和历时的发展变化,根据译入语读者语言审美观的需要选择翻译策略。     

小品中言语幽默的社会：认知语用理据探究

小品中的言语幽默是一种复杂的语言使用现象,传统的合作理论、关联理论、概念整合理论缺乏对其生成机制的阐释力,本研究从社会—认知这一崭新的语用视角阐述小品中的言语幽默。基于所收集的小品会话语料,本文从突显与关联、意图与注意、前经验与当前经验的相互作用深入解析小品中言语幽默的社会—认知语用理据。     

英语听力理解的难点及应对策略

根据英语会话的特点分析了会话听力难懂的原因，指出听力理解需要的基本能力及提高听力理解水平的有效策略。     

Executive function and verbal self-regulation in childhood: Developmental linkages between partially internalized private speech and cognitive flexibility

Recent studies have noted that executive function and the use of self-regulatory private speech are related in childhood, and proposed that the critical leap that occurs in the development of executive function between the ages of three and six years may be due to the onset of language-based self-regulatory functions at this age. This research explored the relationship between executive function and private speech in a cross-sectional study of 81 children between four and seven years of age. The children performed an executive function task, the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS), and children's use of private speech was observed during a categorization task. The results indicated that, after controlling for children's age, gender, verbal abilities, and fluid reasoning, children's use of partially internalized private speech during the categorization task was significantly related to the number of phases successfully passed on the DCCS task, which required them to switch between card sorting rules. Children who used more partially internalized private speech were more likely to pass the most challenging phase of the DCCS task that assesses the ability to flexibly use different sorting rules according to a higher-order rule. We discuss the role of verbal mediation in the development of cognitive flexibility and its implications for the design of intervention programs for children who possess deficits of executive function.     

交际教学法在英语口语教学中的应用

交际教学法是以语言的功能项目为纲,着力培养学习者语言交际能力的一种外语教学方法体系。目前,交际教学法把交际能力的培养作为外语教学的主要目标,针对只具有较低专业水平的学习者,对语言结构的准确程度不做严格要求,强调语言的理解能力,表达能力和相互沟通思想的能力。     

课堂教学中教师礼貌策略的运用

本文从教师使用的礼貌策略入手,分析了教师在课堂教学中如何通过自身的言语行为达到课堂交际的礼貌性和得体性,从而实现有效教学的目的。教师的言语行为是构成课堂心理环境的一部分,它关系到创造和维持积极的课堂气氛,是形成最佳学习氛围的基本要素,并且教师的言语行为还是直接影响学生认知和情感的重要因素。这就使得课堂教学言语的礼貌性自然地成为教师需要考虑的一个重要问题。     

高校教师招聘风险及其规避策略探析

高校教师招聘过程中的风险问题应当受到重视,这些风险包括学力信号减弱、逆向筛选、道德风险、合规风险、学术近亲繁殖等,而现行事业单位用人制度和高校教师专业工作的复杂性等则放大了这种招聘风险。高校应从促进信息对称、运用现代招聘技术和优化招聘制度设计等方面,主动防范和规避教师招聘中的各种风险。     

On Learning and Teaching Strategies Involved in Listening Comprehension

Listening comprehension plays a very important role in Second Language Acquisition.This article focuses on the linguistic and non-linguistic factors that influence listening comprehension,and then give some learning and teaching strategies that will positively assist listening comprehension.