Engineers are very much part of the ongoing globalization and they are encountering problems of cross-disciplinary nature Team working skills respecting other peoples＇ qualifications are required so therefore interpe...Engineers are very much part of the ongoing globalization and they are encountering problems of cross-disciplinary nature Team working skills respecting other peoples＇ qualifications are required so therefore interpersonal skills are becoming more and more important, including communications skills, leadership and awareness. Consequently, educational programs for teaching engineers should work with the fact that the capability of communicating with people with different background competences is important, nevertheless the engineering education has traditionally focused on technical skills rather than on personal development. In order to reform the B.Sc. courses to guide students to become better and more efficient engineers on all levels, the DTU （Technical University of Denmark） and Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences （Metropolia） modified their education according to the CDIO （conceive, design, implement and operate） approach in the autumn of 2008. The CDIO pedagogy encouraged to develop an interactive course in interpersonal skills, where the students have to take an active part in the exercises as well as involve themselves in the interactive communication process. The course consists of various exercises from which the participants will develop their awareness and knowledge of communication. It is the intention to give the students a personal understanding and idea of a different approach to communicating between people. The students evaluated the course, and the four key questions dealing with the quality of the course show a very high satisfaction with the instruction. The grades one and two （1 best/very much, 5 worst/very little） of the responses ＂to these four questions are ranging on average from 69.5% to 88% （on a yearly basis）. The positive responses indicate that the students are very satisfied with the course recognizing the need for education on international communication.展开更多
The purpose of this paper intends to explore specifically whether heavy usage of the Internet by youths increase or decrease their social interaction opportunities. Issues that will be examined include that of the cha...The purpose of this paper intends to explore specifically whether heavy usage of the Internet by youths increase or decrease their social interaction opportunities. Issues that will be examined include that of the change of face-to-face communication between the youth and their families, friends and social activities. A quantitative research method with questionnaires is adopted to meet the objective of this study.展开更多
Teacher's interpersonal skills play a significant role in the teaching quality and students' improvement.Interpersonal skill is complicate and involves a great deal of skills.Due to the limited space,the paper...Teacher's interpersonal skills play a significant role in the teaching quality and students' improvement.Interpersonal skill is complicate and involves a great deal of skills.Due to the limited space,the paper only gives a description of the core skills which are key to teachers in the teaching and learning process.This paper is divided into three parts:what interpersonal skills are important to teachers,why these skills are important and how teachers can develop these skills to improve their teaching and students' learning.In the first part,understanding others,self-presentation,communicating,and influencing by persuading or power were found to be the most important skills in related research and literature.The second part discusses the importance of interpersonal skills both from teacher's teaching quality and students' learning outcome.The last part of the paper lists some suggestions on how to improve teacher's interpersonal skills.展开更多
This article investigates the dynamic relationship between negation and interpersonal communication with a special interest in the interpersonal pragmatic functions of negative mitigation.The online talent show-The Bi...This article investigates the dynamic relationship between negation and interpersonal communication with a special interest in the interpersonal pragmatic functions of negative mitigation.The online talent show-The Birth of an Actor(named as I am An Actor from season two)-totals two seasons composed of 30 episodes,among which,39 rounds of conversations are collected to fulfill this research.This paper invites research methods as recognizing,encoding,analyzing and induction to probe into the interpersonal pragmatic functions of negative mitigation in online talent show.Three findings of this research are that negative mitigation functions firstly,to mitigate blame,secondly,mitigate questions,thirdly,mitigate objections that demonstrates addressors’ability of resolving online conflicts with regard to interpersonal pragmatics.展开更多
Purpose:This study attempts to explore how Chinese college students engage in face-to-facesynchronous and online asynchronous interactions and examine how the two different interacition types are associated with their...Purpose:This study attempts to explore how Chinese college students engage in face-to-facesynchronous and online asynchronous interactions and examine how the two different interacition types are associated with their academic learning(learning achievement and the developmentof research skills),satisfaction,and their perceptions of learning environments.DesignlApproach/Methods:A sample of 3,999 undergraduate students from a research university in Northern China participated in the survey.Aseries of cluster analysis,one-way analysisof variance,and hierarchical multiple regression were conducted.Findings:The cluster analysis results revealed that there were four types of learners amongthese students and thata large percentage of Chinese undergraduates were classified into eitherdigital communicators(36.16%)or passive interactors(32.71%).In general the face-to-facesynchronous interaction generated more desirable academic learning perceptions of the learn-ing environment,and higher satisfaction than the online asynchronous interaction in mostaspects.However,the asynchronous online interaction fostered student autonomy and contributed to students'completion of an in-depth thesis.OriginalitylValue:By distinguishing face-to-face synchronous versus online asynchronousinteractions,this study led toan enhanced knowledge of the interactive patterns of Chinesecollege students and uncovered the specific effects of the two types ofinterpersonal interactionsin Chinese research universities.展开更多
文摘Engineers are very much part of the ongoing globalization and they are encountering problems of cross-disciplinary nature Team working skills respecting other peoples＇ qualifications are required so therefore interpersonal skills are becoming more and more important, including communications skills, leadership and awareness. Consequently, educational programs for teaching engineers should work with the fact that the capability of communicating with people with different background competences is important, nevertheless the engineering education has traditionally focused on technical skills rather than on personal development. In order to reform the B.Sc. courses to guide students to become better and more efficient engineers on all levels, the DTU （Technical University of Denmark） and Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences （Metropolia） modified their education according to the CDIO （conceive, design, implement and operate） approach in the autumn of 2008. The CDIO pedagogy encouraged to develop an interactive course in interpersonal skills, where the students have to take an active part in the exercises as well as involve themselves in the interactive communication process. The course consists of various exercises from which the participants will develop their awareness and knowledge of communication. It is the intention to give the students a personal understanding and idea of a different approach to communicating between people. The students evaluated the course, and the four key questions dealing with the quality of the course show a very high satisfaction with the instruction. The grades one and two （1 best/very much, 5 worst/very little） of the responses ＂to these four questions are ranging on average from 69.5% to 88% （on a yearly basis）. The positive responses indicate that the students are very satisfied with the course recognizing the need for education on international communication.
文摘The purpose of this paper intends to explore specifically whether heavy usage of the Internet by youths increase or decrease their social interaction opportunities. Issues that will be examined include that of the change of face-to-face communication between the youth and their families, friends and social activities. A quantitative research method with questionnaires is adopted to meet the objective of this study.
文摘Teacher's interpersonal skills play a significant role in the teaching quality and students' improvement.Interpersonal skill is complicate and involves a great deal of skills.Due to the limited space,the paper only gives a description of the core skills which are key to teachers in the teaching and learning process.This paper is divided into three parts:what interpersonal skills are important to teachers,why these skills are important and how teachers can develop these skills to improve their teaching and students' learning.In the first part,understanding others,self-presentation,communicating,and influencing by persuading or power were found to be the most important skills in related research and literature.The second part discusses the importance of interpersonal skills both from teacher's teaching quality and students' learning outcome.The last part of the paper lists some suggestions on how to improve teacher's interpersonal skills.
文摘This article investigates the dynamic relationship between negation and interpersonal communication with a special interest in the interpersonal pragmatic functions of negative mitigation.The online talent show-The Birth of an Actor(named as I am An Actor from season two)-totals two seasons composed of 30 episodes,among which,39 rounds of conversations are collected to fulfill this research.This paper invites research methods as recognizing,encoding,analyzing and induction to probe into the interpersonal pragmatic functions of negative mitigation in online talent show.Three findings of this research are that negative mitigation functions firstly,to mitigate blame,secondly,mitigate questions,thirdly,mitigate objections that demonstrates addressors’ability of resolving online conflicts with regard to interpersonal pragmatics.
基金supported by the General Research Fund of Hong Kong SAR under grant number CUHK 14618118.
文摘Purpose:This study attempts to explore how Chinese college students engage in face-to-facesynchronous and online asynchronous interactions and examine how the two different interacition types are associated with their academic learning(learning achievement and the developmentof research skills),satisfaction,and their perceptions of learning environments.DesignlApproach/Methods:A sample of 3,999 undergraduate students from a research university in Northern China participated in the survey.Aseries of cluster analysis,one-way analysisof variance,and hierarchical multiple regression were conducted.Findings:The cluster analysis results revealed that there were four types of learners amongthese students and thata large percentage of Chinese undergraduates were classified into eitherdigital communicators(36.16%)or passive interactors(32.71%).In general the face-to-facesynchronous interaction generated more desirable academic learning perceptions of the learn-ing environment,and higher satisfaction than the online asynchronous interaction in mostaspects.However,the asynchronous online interaction fostered student autonomy and contributed to students'completion of an in-depth thesis.OriginalitylValue:By distinguishing face-to-face synchronous versus online asynchronousinteractions,this study led toan enhanced knowledge of the interactive patterns of Chinesecollege students and uncovered the specific effects of the two types ofinterpersonal interactionsin Chinese research universities.
