A comunicação é um processo que se encontra internamente relacionado com a expressividade. Há profissionais que usam demasiadamente a comunicação e a expressividade, como é o caso do professor, que atua transmitindo informações as quais devem chegar de maneira efetiva aos seus alunos. O objetivo geral do estudo foi investigar a expressividade do professor universitário de enfermagem ministrando aula, por meio do julgamento dos alunos. Trata-se de estudo descritivo com abordagem quantitativa, realizado em uma instituição de ensino superior de enfermagem de uma universidade pública. Alunos matriculados (141) nos cursos de bacharelado e licenciatura de enfermagem, distribuídos em três turmas, realizaram a avaliação da expressividade de um professor da instituição, sendo que este possuía experiência profissional, estava em atividade regular e não era conhecido por este alunado. A avaliação da expressividade foi realizada por meio de seis minutos de filmagem de uma aula ministrada por esse professor. Esta mesma filmagem foi avaliada por três experts fonoaudiólogos, especialistas em voz e experientes em expressividade. A pesquisa contou com quatro fases (preparo dos instrumentos, no qual foi utilizado protocolo de avaliação fonoaudiológica e instrumento para os alunos; questionário para avaliação do aluno, adaptado segundo o protocolo de avaliação fonoaudiológica; avaliação da confiabilidade deste protocolo por três experts fonoaudiólogos; filmagem do professor participante a ser avaliado). O resultado mostrou que os experts apresentaram, praticamente, poucas discordâncias entre si em relação à avaliação da expressividade do professor, pois são especialistas e possuem experiência profissional em radio e televisão. Quanto à identificação da expressividade do professor segundo a avaliação de alunos e dos experts, em relação aos elementos: tipo de voz, pitch, esforço vocal, loudness, articulação, expressão facial, gestos e postura corporal, os resultados mostraram que as alternativas escolhidas pela maioria dos alunos foram significativamente maiores que as demais e concordantes com a maioria dos experts. Os elementos \"ênfase\", \"demonstra experiência\" e \"o que chamou atenção no vídeo\" não foram possíveis de comparação, porque não houve equivalência entre os instrumentos utilizados para a avaliação dos experts e dos alunos. O item \"pausa na fala\" não apresentou significância estatística entre a avaliação das respostas dos alunos, quando comparadas aos experts. Quanto às diferenças de avaliações entre as três turmas entre si, estas apresentaram poucas divergências entre elas. Conclui-se que o julgamento do aluno sobre as habilidades expressivas do professor de enfermagem é compatível com a avaliação dos experts fonoaudiólogos, mostrando que os alunos da universidade pública são mais que meros espectadores e pessoas capazes de avaliar, com propriedade, o professor. / Communication is a process that is internally related to expressiveness. There are professionals who use too much communication and expressiveness, as is the case of a teacher, which operates by transmitting information to effectively reach their students. The overall objective of this study was to investigate the expressiveness of a university professor of a nursing school, teaching a class by the means of the assessment of students. This is a descriptive study with a quantitative approach, performed in an institution of higher education in nursing at a public university. Enrolled students (141) in the nursing major, divided into three classes, carried out the assessment of expressiveness of a teacher of the previously mentioned institution, which whom had professional experience. This teacher was in regular activity and was not known by this student body. The assessment of expressiveness was performed by the means of a six- minute footage of a class taught by this teacher. This same footage was reviewed by three expert speech pathologists, voice specialists and experts in expressiveness. The research included four phases (preparation of instruments, by being the protocol of clinical assessment used and tool for the students; students\' questionnaire to evaluate the teacher, adjusted in accordance with the protocol of clinical assessment, reliability evaluation of the protocol by three expert audiologists; footage of the teacher participant to be evaluated). The outcome has shown that there were virtually very few disagreements between the experts regarding the evaluation of the expressiveness of the teacher, since they are specialists and have experience in radio and television. Regarding the identification of the expressiveness of the teacher according to the evaluation of students and experts in relation to the elements: voice type, pitch, vocal effort, loudness, articulation, facial expression, gestures and body posture, the outcome showed that the alternatives chosen by most students were significantly higher than the others and consistent with most experts. The elements \"emphasis\", \"the showing of experience\" and \"what drew attention in the video\" were not possible to compare, because there was no equivalence between the instruments used for the evaluation of experts and students. The item \"pause in the speech\" hasn\'t shown statistical significance between the assessment of students\' responses, when compared to experts. When considering differences in ratings among the three classes together, this study showed that they differ a little from each other. It has been noticed that the assessment of the student on the expressiveness abilities of the teacher of nursing is consistent with the assessments of speech experts, showing that students at public universities are more than mere spectators but people can properly evaluate the teacher.

This research is based on a case study of a former all-white Afrikaans secondary school situated in Pretoria in the Gauteng province of South Africa. The aim of this case study was to investigate and report on the complex and dynamic communicative interactions that were apparent in the events, human relationships and other elements as they unfolded and revealed themselves in desegregated classrooms in this school. I utilised an interpretive qualitative research design as my guiding methodology. This incorporated the use of semi-structured interviews, observation, video recordings, and narrative inquiry as sources of rich and layered data. My object of research was the patterns of communicative interaction that occurred between teachers and learners and between learners. My goal was to obtain a clear analytical view of the ways in which teachers and learners from diverse racial, cultural and ethnic backgrounds interacted with one another in the classroom. For this purpose I made use of multiple methods of data collection and included a variety of techniques that enabled me to triangulate the findings so as to ensure the credibility and trustworthiness of the empirical investigation. An analysis of the findings revealed that the school in which the study was conducted was beset by challenges that created communication barriers between teachers and learners and between learners and learners. Such barriers to communication became evident in the use of language, in the school’s failure to accommodate cultural differences, in the dynamics of class participation, in the use of both verbal and nonverbal forms of communication and in the prevalence of racism. However, some of the teachers and learners were conscious of these challenges and attitudes and strove to create a non-racist environment in their school that would negate the effects of the racist paradigm wherever possible. The study suggests that there is a need for the South African government to take the initiative to support all desegregated schools in various practical ways if the effects of racism are not to be passed onto the next generation of adults in our country. Copyright / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Curriculum Studies / unrestricted

The thesis La gestuelle en FLE concerns itself with non-verbal communication and usage of gestures in the French language teaching process. It consists of two main parts, theoretical and practical. Theoretical part is focused primarily on non-verbal communication, its types and function, verbal communication will also be mentioned for better understanding of the connection between the two types. In chapter focused on gesture we'll focus on body language, its position concerning the environment (proxemics), we will discuss facial expressions and movement of individual body parts (gestures). Important aspect is the voice, which is considered the middleman between verbal and non-verbal communication. In the chapter dedicated to pedagogical gesture we will focus on its types and function. Last chapter of the theoretical part concerns itself with the body and voice of the teacher, as those are indispensable in the language teaching process. During teaching, the teacher of a foreign language uses all means of communication, spoken word is accompanied or completely substituted by a specific gesture, which leads to better understanding on the side of student and also to elimination of student's mother tongue. Practical part is focused on observation and analysis of two French classes. The subject of...

Detta examensarbete har behandlat rekryteringsprocessen med fokus på intervjun. Arbetet har avgränsats till att studera icke-verbal kommunikation och mentala genvägar som kan förekomma i en arbetsintervju. Semi-strukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med sju intervjupersoner. Resultatet analyserades med tematisk analys. Forskning om rekryteringsprocessen, intervjumetodik, icke-verbal kommunikation och mentala genvägar användes som bakgrund vid analysen. Resultatet visar att icke-verbal kommunikation påverkar hur en kandidat uppfattas och att även mentala genvägar kan påverka.

The purpose of this work is to show howcome ACC (Augmentative and alternative communication) would be used in preschool with all the children and not just with the children who are in need of it. This study therefore has the task of comparing two different preschools, one municipal and one private, to get knowledge of educators perceptions and expectations of its work with ACC in verbal communication with the children. To conduct the survey, questionnaires were sent to the respondents. One group of informants was working at a municipal preschool, the other group is working at a Swedish church's preschool. The questionnaires were compiled to show any similarities or differences among the preschools and what these may be depended on. The results show that educators in the municipal preschool are familiar with the work of ACC and welcomes the method. The replies from the respondents in the Swedish church's preschool are however show a certain resignation because respondents say they want to use ACC but they don’t really manage to create time and opportunities. The study also shows that the work of ACC in preschool represents a solid support to all children's language development and vocabulary building, regardless of difficulties. Thus it can be concluded that ACC contributes to children are treated in an equal way in linguistic communication with adults.

Interação verbal e construção de conhecimento - O caráter social de situações de entrevista envolvendo a díade pesquisador-sujeito suscita o interesse de se identificar como as ações de cada um dos membros contribui para que ambos conheçam um tema e qual a natureza do conhecimento assim construído. É nesta perspectiva que se coloca o presente trabalho, que teve como objetivo \"identificar classes de ações interativas pesquisador-sujeito e a função que desempenham na construção de conhecimento sobre um fenômeno que é tema dos relatos do sujeito, durante sessões de coleta de informações planejadas pelo pesquisador\". Foram identificadas Categorias de Interação que forneceram indicações sobre como as ações verbais dos interlocutores operaram na construção de conhecimento descritivo e inferencial sobre um fenômeno que era tema dos diálogos. Além disso, os resultados indicaram que, na situação estudada, sob condições de interação verbal, o conhecimento que pesquisador e sujeito têm de um tema se transforma, devido a características peculiares aos processos interativos envolvendo relatos verbais. Por fim, os resultados levaram a algumas considerações mais gerais a respeito da interrelação entre processo interativo e construção de conhecimento, especialmente no contexto de situações - problema a serem resolvidas / Verbal Interaction and Knowledge Construction - The social character of interview situations with the dyad researcher- subject gives rise to the problem of identifying how the actions of each member contributes to the knowledge of the theme and the nature of this knowledge. This work follow this view. Its objective is \"to identify classes of researcher- subject interactive actions and the function they play in the construction of the knowledge about the phenomenon which is the theme of the subjects\' reports, taking place during the sessions planned by the researcher\". Interaction classes were identified and they gave indications of how the speakers\' verbal actions operates in the descriptive and inferential constructed knowledge. Besides that, the results indicate that in this case, under the conditions of verbal interaction, the knowledge the researcher and the subject have about the theme changes, because of the peculiar character of interactive processes envolving verbal reports. Finally, the results brought about some general considerations of the interrelation betweeen interactive processes and knowledge construction, specially in the context of problem-solving situations

Interação verbal e construção de conhecimento - O caráter social de situações de entrevista envolvendo a díade pesquisador-sujeito suscita o interesse de se identificar como as ações de cada um dos membros contribui para que ambos conheçam um tema e qual a natureza do conhecimento assim construído. É nesta perspectiva que se coloca o presente trabalho, que teve como objetivo \"identificar classes de ações interativas pesquisador-sujeito e a função que desempenham na construção de conhecimento sobre um fenômeno que é tema dos relatos do sujeito, durante sessões de coleta de informações planejadas pelo pesquisador\". Foram identificadas Categorias de Interação que forneceram indicações sobre como as ações verbais dos interlocutores operaram na construção de conhecimento descritivo e inferencial sobre um fenômeno que era tema dos diálogos. Além disso, os resultados indicaram que, na situação estudada, sob condições de interação verbal, o conhecimento que pesquisador e sujeito têm de um tema se transforma, devido a características peculiares aos processos interativos envolvendo relatos verbais. Por fim, os resultados levaram a algumas considerações mais gerais a respeito da interrelação entre processo interativo e construção de conhecimento, especialmente no contexto de situações - problema a serem resolvidas / Verbal Interaction and Knowledge Construction - The social character of interview situations with the dyad researcher- subject gives rise to the problem of identifying how the actions of each member contributes to the knowledge of the theme and the nature of this knowledge. This work follow this view. Its objective is \"to identify classes of researcher- subject interactive actions and the function they play in the construction of the knowledge about the phenomenon which is the theme of the subjects\' reports, taking place during the sessions planned by the researcher\". Interaction classes were identified and they gave indications of how the speakers\' verbal actions operates in the descriptive and inferential constructed knowledge. Besides that, the results indicate that in this case, under the conditions of verbal interaction, the knowledge the researcher and the subject have about the theme changes, because of the peculiar character of interactive processes envolving verbal reports. Finally, the results brought about some general considerations of the interrelation betweeen interactive processes and knowledge construction, specially in the context of problem-solving situations

During collaboration, people communicate using verbal and non-verbal cues, including gaze cues. Spoken language is usually the primary medium of communication in these interactions, yet despite this co-occurrence of speech and gaze cueing, most experiments have used paradigms without language. Furthermore, previous research has shown that myriad social factors influence behaviour during interactions, yet most studies investigating responses to gaze have been conducted in a lab, far removed from any natural interaction. It was the aim of this thesis to investigate the relationship between language and gaze cue utilisation in natural collaborations. For this reason, the initial study was largely observational, allowing for spontaneous natural language and gaze. Participants were found to rarely look at their partners, but to do so strategically, with listeners looking more at speakers when the latter were of higher social status. Eye movement behaviour also varied with the type of language used in instructions, so in a second study, a more controlled (but still real-world) paradigm was used to investigate the effect of language type on gaze utilisation. Participants used gaze cues flexibly, by seeking and following gaze more when the cues were accompanied by distinct featural verbal information compared to overlapping spatial verbal information. The remaining three studies built on these findings to investigate the relationship between language and gaze using a much more controlled paradigm. Gaze and language cues were reduced to equivalent artificial stimuli and the reliability of each cue was manipulated. Even in this artificial paradigm, language was preferred when cues were equally reliable, supporting the idea that gaze cues are supportive to language. Typical gaze cueing effects were still found, however the size of these effects was modulated by gaze cue reliability. Combined, the studies in this thesis show that although gaze cues may automatically and quickly affect attention, their use in natural communication is mediated by the form and content of concurrent spoken language.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2006. / "May 15, 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 24-28). Online version available on the World Wide Web.

<p>Det råder delade meningar om konsekvenserna av att arbeta i öppna</p><p>kontorslandskap. Kommunikation och en bra laganda anses vara ett</p><p>grundläggande element i framgångsrika organisationer. Då användandet av</p><p>öppna kontorslandskap ökat finns ett behov av forskning inom området.</p><p>Syftet är att utifrån ett arbetspsykologiskt perspektiv undersöka</p><p>medarbetarnas upplevelse av kontorslandskap med fokus på den verbala</p><p>kommunikationen och lagandan mellan medarbetarna, detta genom åtta</p><p>deltagare i Downs & Hazens (1977) Communication Satisfaction</p><p>Questionnaire samt semistrukturerade intervjuer. Respondenterna upplever</p><p>en öppen och positiv verbal kommunikation dock upplevs den även som ett</p><p>störningsmoment. Lagandan upplevs som stark och främjande av den</p><p>individuella och organisatoriska prestationen. Arbetssituationen skulle</p><p>förbättras om privata utrymmen upprättas samt regler och rutiner gällande</p><p>agerande i kontorslandskap införs.</p>