 SILENCE AND BREAKS IN SPEECH IN THE ONLINE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAlexandra Mä‚rginean ()
Journal of Information Systems & Operations Management, 2021, vol. 15, issue 1, 114-128 Abstract: The paper analyzes an aspect of online teaching of foreign languages to students pertaining to paralanguage, namely the use of silence and breaks in speech in the academic class activity. The study consists in two main parts, the first introducing the various contexts in which breaks in speech ensue, discussing the nature of these moments of silence and some of their characteristics along with their perception and management by both teacher and students. The second part of the paper looks at a short survey made up of two questions, which reveal relevant aspects regarding the students’ perception of these breaks in speech, how it relates to their level of English and how it makes them feel, i.e. the reactions that it triggers and what these rely on. The quantitative method was mainly used for the survey, but there is a qualitative component as well, in the students’ provision of details as to the cause of the main reactions triggered in them by the occurrence of long(er) instances of silence, so in the second part of the second question. The conclusions point out that silence and breaks in speech are relevant paralinguistic elements in online didactic communication. Date: 2021 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rau:jisomg:v:15:y:2021:i:1:p:114-128 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of Information Systems & Operations Management from Romanian-American University Contact information at EDIRC. |
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