The Impact of Using Oral Presentations on Students’ Communication and Collaboration Skills: A Social Semiotic Analysis
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2016-06
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University Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou
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This dissertation is concerned with the impact of using Oral Presentations on Master I students’ communication and collaboration skills. It analyzes the Oral Presentations performed by Master I students to identify their multimodal nature and examines the students’ usage of Verbal and Nonverbal resources; that is, language, paralanguage, gestures, head motions, facial expressions and postures, to achieve communication skills. It also examines whether these OPs impact the students’ communication and collaboration skills or not. The study was conducted in the Department of English at Ali LOUNICI University of El Affroun –Blida - using a mixed method research. It adopts Kress & Van Leeuwen(2006) Theory of multimodality to identify the different semiotic modes that Oral Presentations comprise and to analyze twenty four (24) students’ verbal and nonverbal behaviors collected from nine (09) video-recorded Oral Presentations. It also uses the SPSS for the statistical analysis of the quantitative data collected from eighty three (83) questionnaires and Qualitative Content Analysis to interpret the qualitative data of the questionnaires and three (03) interviews. The results of the study reveal that Oral Presentations are Live Multimodal texts. These practices which implement the principles of the socioconstructivist Approach and Experience Based Learning Approach to teaching and learning impact the communication skills of the students. Students become active autonomous learners that learn about communication process through their own and their mates’ experiences. That is, the students use verbal and nonverbal resources to fulfill communication skills such as articulating thoughts, asking questions, listening to audience and providing constructive feedback. Also, through experience, the students show skills of using multimedia and giving Oral Presentations. Moreover, the results reveal that the students collaborate with their peers but fail to collaborate with their teams. On the basis of these findings, it is concluded that Oral Presentations are live multimodal texts that enhance Master I students’ communication skills but fail to develop the students’ team collaboration skills.
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106p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)
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Oral Presentations, Multimodality, Mode, Semiotic Resource, Communication skills, Collaboration skills, Experience Based Learning
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Linguistique appliquée et Sémiotique Sociale.