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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, April 30, 1997." Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1987. / Also available in print.

Graduation date: 1992

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Education." Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-213).

The final project “Training of Communicative Competence of Management Students in Lithuanian Colleges” by the graduate of Master’s broad education programme of Vilnius Pedagogical University, pedagogic and psychology department Rima Bačiulytė, analyses the situation of training communicative competence of management career education in higher non-university educational institutions. Seeing that every person’s communicative competence forms presumptions for his/her worth personal life, and the effective usage of communicative abilities determines the development of an organization in substantial social, economical and technical transformation conditions, and one of the aims of colleges is to fulfill social-economical needs of appropriate regions and the country, so great attention should be paid to training of communicative competence in colleges. The terms of communication, competence, and communicative competence are defined, scientists’ opinions to required knowledge, abilities and skills, values and motivation are summarised, a manager’s communicative competence in modern transformation conditions is analysed, the basis of effective communication – match of speaking, listening, writing and reading is shown, the role of college in training of communicative competence of a manager is evaluated in the project. The expression of this competence in curricula and the documents regulating them are analysed, the results of the survey of students’ opinions are presented. As... [to full text]

The communicative competence of bilingual children involves a large array of skills---they must not only acquire the full range of communication skills of monolinguals but also learn when, how and with whom to use each language. This dissertation features three studies on the communication skills of bilingual children (French-English bilinguals aged 2.5 and 3 years from the Montreal area). Studies 1 and 2 explored these children's ability to make appropriate language choices by studying their responsiveness to two types of cues: The first study investigated whether children's language choice is influenced by their interlocutor's code-mixing; the second study examined whether children change their language in response to their interlocutor's requests for clarification following the children's use of the inappropriate language. The children demonstrated that they were capable of making on-line adjustments in their language choice in response to both types of cues, thereby showing that sensitivity to cues for language change is part of bilingual children's communicative competence from a young age. Study 3 compared bilingual and monolingual children's responses to requests for clarification following breakdowns in communication due to problematic aspects of their utterances such as speaking too softly or mispronouncing words. The findings revealed no significant differences between the bilingual and monolingual children's responses and suggest that the acquisition of conversational repair skills is not influenced by the simultaneous acquisition of two languages. Together, these three studies contribute to the understanding of the skills underlying children's ability to make appropriate language choices and suggest that the unique demands of bilingual interpersonal communication do not interfere with the acquisition of more general communication skills.

Research in the area of sex and gender communication has been largely relegated the organizational setting and the superior/subordinate framework. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the effects of biological sex and psychological gender on evaluations of communication appropriateness within the interpersonal context. College students were first asked to complete a sex-role inventory. There were then presented with a series of scenarios depicting a communication encounter in which communicators adhered to gendered communication behavior norms, and a communication encounter in which communicators deviated from gendered communication behavior norms. After reading each transcript, participants completed a communication appropriateness scale for each character presented in the scenarios. The results show that within the interpersonal context, there are differences between males and females in evaluations of general competence, and that males enacting a feminine style of communication are evaluated as more communicatively appropriate than males enacting a masculine style of communication. Finally, this study provides a critique on the Bem Sex-Role Inventory based upon empirical evidence. / Department of Communication Studies