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Veterinarians have to face many communicative challenges in their professional capacity. Successful professional communication increases satisfaction among pet owners, staff members and colleagues, and ultimately also the veterinarians' own satisfaction. On the other hand, unsuccessful communication can easily lead to rejection, distrust and dissatisfaction. However, communicative skills are not explicitly taught as part of the compulsory courses in veterinary medicine in Germany. The position paper of the GMA Veterinary Medicine Committee and the DVG work group Didactics and Communication Competence describes the importance of successful communication for working veterinarians as well as the training situation in Germany and addresses topics that are often discussed in connection with the implementation. The authors come to the conclusion that there is both a necessity and a possibility for the introduction of communicative training contentand provide recommendations thatare intended to support the sustainable introduction of courses and exams to develop the communicative skills of veterinary students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the relevance of communication studies for human sciences. Communication studies is often proposed as a synthetic approach to the human sciences outright, an interdisciplinary inquiry capable of linking the researches of specialized human sciences to the philosophical foundations of the project of human scientific inquiry itself. The author says that from the standpoint of the relation between philosophy and the human sciences, the constitution of perception, institutions and thought by media of communication is the thesis proper to communication studies, the thesis from which its larger significance derives. According to the author, by describing the precise point at which a theory of communication diverges from a theory of scientific meaning, it is possible to note a significant convergence between phenomenology and a Marxist critique of a semiotic theory of language.

Academics are encouraged to integrate scientific research with the public, but methods of doing so are often transient and insubstantial. Students and future scientists also require training and exposure to the importance of public outreach and science communication within STEM fields. Here, I describe two projects that provide a template for using children's books as an efficient and impactful means of science communication. The first part describes an international research project that culminates in the writing, illustration, and distribution of a children's book. Farzana's Journey is a children's book based on multidisciplinary research on the pairing of the physical and human systems in coastal Bangladesh. Written, illustrated, and freely distributed in the Bengali language, the book is a place-based tool to teach rural Bangladesh communities about the natural world and our scientific findings. Through the development and distribution of the book, we encouraged collaboration and public outreach with scientists, artists, and students concerned with enhancing educational and social opportunities in rural communities. We also ensure a physical tie to the community after the project's culmination. The book sparks children's curiosity in the local environment while also demonstrating a means for sustainable educational outreach with impoverished, remote communities. The second part of the paper provides an overview of how this type of science communication can be taught to early-career scientists. Students in an intensive learning undergraduate course produce children's books about a scientific concept or process. I describe the curricular context and layout of the course, the assessment of deliverables, and the impacts of the science storytelling process as a model for teaching communication literacy. Together, these efforts demonstrate the potential impact of children's books on science communication efforts among students, early-career scientists, and local communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we consider the communication of information in the presence of a causal adversarial jammer. In the setting under study, a sender wishes to communicate a message to a receiver by transmitting a codeword \bf x=(x1, \dots, xn) bit-by-bit over a communication channel. The sender and the receiver do not share common randomness. The adversarial jammer can view the transmitted bits xi one at a time and can change up to a p-fraction of them. However, the decisions of the jammer must be made in a causal manner. Namely, for each bit xi, the jammer's decision on whether to corrupt it or not must depend only on xj for j \leq i. This is in contrast to the “classical” adversarial jamming situations in which the jammer has no knowledge of \bf x, or knows \bf x completely. In this study, we present upper bounds (that hold under both the average and maximal probability of error criteria) on the capacity which hold for both deterministic and stochastic encoding schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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The utilization of chaotic optical communication, a physical layer security technology, has the potential to enhance the security of optical fiber networks. In this paper, we take knowledge acquired while teaching "A chaotic security system based on phase-intensity (P-I) electro-optic feedback" as an example and, in detail, introduce a teaching implementation process based on the combination of Optisystem and Matlab. Firstly, based on the Lang–Kobayashi (L-K) laser equation, the generation mechanism of electro-optic feedback chaos was explained. Secondly, the P-I electro-optic feedback chaos was analyzed theoretically with the help of Matlab. Finally, a laser chaotic optical communication system based on electro-optic feedback was built with the help of Optisystem (15.0.0) software, and the performance of the communication was simulated and analyzed through the design of system parameters. The teaching design model and facilitate the concretization of the abstract theory of "the principle of chaos generated by electro-optic feedback, the composition of chaotic optical communication system and the performance index of chaotic communication system". Through after-class exercises and questionnaire surveys, it was verified that the teaching method is widely recognized by students and that it effectively improves the teaching effect of the course of laser chaotic communication and the students' academic research ability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: This paper investigates the perceptions of medical interns regarding the usefulness of non-mother tongue communication skills taught during the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. In 2003, the university decided to incorporate Afrikaans and IsiXhosa communication skills into the new MBChB curriculum in order to meet the Faculty of Health Sciences goals to promote quality and equity in healthcare, and to prepare graduating health practitioners for multilingual communities where they would be serving. Despite annual internal evaluations and reviews of the languages courses, the usefulness, if any, of the additional languages in the working clinical environment had not been determined. Methods: Data were collected during the second year of medical internship across a five-year period through survey questionnaires, as well as focus group interviews conducted in the Western Cape, South Africa. Surveys were conducted from 2009 to 2013. Results: The study shows that the usefulness of each of the probed categories was not consistent across both languages. The interns expressed a need for an overall improvement of the isiXhosa course offering, while the outcomes for the Afrikaans language were more positive across all categories except for cultural understanding. Conclusion: The study indicates a positive trend amongst the interns towards developing usefulness in communication skills in Afrikaans and isiXhosa to communicate with their patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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English cross-cultural communication is crucial in global trade, technology circulation, and cultural exchange, because not only is the difference between different cultures in language, but the knowledge requirements for cross-cultural communication are even higher. However, in the decades of English teaching development, is still difficult for the research on cross-cultural communication teaching to get rid of the test-taking mode, which makes it difficult for most people to apply it to real life after learning English. In order to solve the problem that English learning is not thorough enough in cross-cultural communication and lacks practicality, this paper starts with the selection of intelligent image sensors, based on CMOS image sensors, sets the sensor parameters and characteristics, and builds multimedia teaching equipment at the same time. Through these methods, it forms an English teaching system for cross-cultural communication and proposes classroom teaching procedures and methods. After four months of teaching experiments with this system, the educated students have made remarkable progress in cross-cultural communication. They have improved to varying degrees in four aspects: cross-cultural communication skills, mastery of cultural knowledge, accuracy of English expression, and ability to adapt to cultural situations. Among them, the accuracy of English expression improved the most in different cultures, and the average score increased by 16 points. In terms of comprehensive performance, the average level of students improved by 17% from preexperiment to postexperiment. Therefore, the teaching system in this paper can help students to have better performance in cross-cultural English communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital communication skills and competencies have become a necessity in the contemporary education process, both for teachers and students, due to the increased integration of digital information technologies into the teaching process. Regarding the above--mentioned, this research was undertaken through the collaboration of three international universities to investigate the significance of digital communication and some overall skills and competencies in the teaching process. Two online questionnaires were formulated and administered by each university: one addressed to teaching staff and one addressed to undergraduate students. Data interpretation with the help of the SPSS program and graphic methods allowed the creation of a relevant image of the studied phenomenon. Several results are found in the study. For instance, both students and teachers attach great importance to the use of both digital and traditional media tools and communication channels in the teaching process. For older students and younger teachers, these tools were more important as support for the teaching process than for younger ones. On the other hand, younger students show greater independence in acquiring digital communicative skills and competencies, while among teachers, age was positively correlated with independence in acquiring these competencies. Out of the five evaluated digital tools and media, the telephone proved to be the most significant means of digital communication in the teaching process for students in all three countries. INSET: c. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Songs are an integral aspect of Zulu folklore, as they are performed in almost all ceremonies in Zulu culture. Every ceremony, or occasion in which people come together, such as a wedding ceremony, (coming of (age), mhlonyana (girls ceremony when they reach womanhood) or a funeral gathering, has particular songs associated with it. The aim of this paper was to explore the effectiveness of wedding songs as a means of communication and education in Zulu culture. The researchers first discussed the importance of music in African societies and secondly examined its role as a means of communication and education. The study adopted a qualitative approach located within the interpretivist paradigm. Ten songs were selected to illustrate how artists use songs to convey social messages. The songs were analysed using the critical discourse analysis approach. The researchers argued that the Zulu people compose songs to record a certain event or convey a social message. Thus, wedding songs do not only entertain people at a particular gathering or ceremony but communicate crucial messages that are educational at the same time. This article has revealed that most of the Zulu wedding songs contain repetitions that emphasise a certain word with an important social message. Therefore, the style and linguistic features of a song play a crucial role in emphasising the message embedded in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid change of technology has driven the information industry to advance and develop, and the computer network technology has been greatly improved, which also promotes the artistic expression of visual communication to develop in the direction of diversification and enrichment, providing designers with more sufficient performance carriers in visual communication design. As an essential communication method and medium in modern art and design, multimedia technology assumes the role of information transmission and communication in the teaching process of visual communication design and is an important communication platform. At the same time, in order to meet the market demand for talents, visual communication professional teaching is also faced with the contemporary task of cultivating innovative talents. And multimedia technology is gradually being applied in the field of education and teaching, becoming one of the driving forces to promote the evolution of teaching methods and teaching modes. Multimedia technology, as a medium of visual symbolic communication with the times, can not only expand and extend the depth and breadth of visual communication professional teaching but also promote the improvement of teaching methods and modes. This paper proposes that, against the background of continuous technological innovation, it is very necessary to further integrate multimedia technology into the teaching of visual communication majors. This paper discusses and analyzes and studies the application of multimedia technology in the teaching of visual communication from the aspect of innovative development in the teaching of visual communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the era of big data, the rapid development of information technology has made the sharing of data and information more free, bringing convenience to the public, but at the same time, the massive amount of data also brings "information anxiety." In this paper, we use the knowledge of design discipline, combined with psychological cognitive science, statistics, and communication discipline, and analyze a large number of excellent cases to effectively combine "information visualization-visual representation-design." The purpose of this study is to enable audiences to efficiently access information through visual symbols in a large amount of data and to increase their interest in reading and satisfaction in accessing information. As a carrier of communication between designers and audiences in the process of visual representation of information visualization, visual symbols can effectively convey information content and emotional concepts to audiences. Finally, based on the theoretical support of the previous paper, combined with our own practical experience, we conduct a systematic study on the application of design thinking and the construction of design methods for the design of visual representations of information visualization. A comparative study on the aesthetics of different categories of APP interface design is conducted, and it is believed that different categories of APP can create distinctive and different categories of APP interface aesthetics through the differentiated design of interface layout, content expression, and visual form, which is considered as the ultimate goal that APP interface design must pursue. Visual representation is a method and means to realize information visualization as a representation practice that expresses the meaning of information in the form of visual symbols. The visual representation of information visualization uses visual symbols as a medium, and the audience interprets the visual symbols based on cognitive experience to obtain information, which helps to maximize the dissemination of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of papers presented at the 2008 National Conference in Sales Management. They include "Utilizing Activity Theory to Plan Cross-Cultural Sales Training Programs," "Sales Performance & Center Stage: Comparing and Combining of Studies" and "Gender Differences in Communication: Implications for Salespeople."

The paradigm known as Cognitive Radio (CR) proposes a continuous sensing of the electromagnetic spectrum in order to dynamically modify transmission parameters, making intelligent use of the environment by taking advantage of different techniques such as Neural Networks. This paradigm is becoming especially relevant due to the congestion in the spectrum produced by increasing numbers of IoT (Internet of Things) devices. Nowadays, many different Software-Defined Radio (SDR) platforms provide tools to implement CR systems in a teaching laboratory environment. Within the framework of a 'Communication Systems' course, this paper presents a methodology for learning the fundamentals of radio transmitters and receivers in combination with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to develop a new strategy for disaster education by combining the SOR communication model and the ASSURE learning design. This research was conducted in 3 stages, namely: (1) designing learning using the ASSURE model, (2) designing Stimulus Organism Response (SOR) in learning and (3) analyzing learning outcomes data using 9 response indicators. Research shows that educational communication in the SOR model is synchronous with the ASSURE design so that reasoning, learning motivation and direct experience in understanding disasters are more developed. The results of the evaluation of the new strategy using 9 response indicators, namely: Relevance, Consistency, Concise, Method, Analysis, Data Sources, Information, Conclusions, References show that 58% of students choose topics that are relevant to the learning material, 69% of students write short scientific papers that are appropriate. with the chosen topic, 74% of students develop experiments using statistics, and 53% of students Presenting data in visual form such as pictures and maps. This research shows that the new strategy of disaster education by combining SOR communication model and ASSURE learning design at all school levels is very effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Our Science Club was founded to gather students in order to involve them in scientific research work. This lecture aims to present our experience in students’ scientific research works. We would like to present our solutions when it comes to the popularization of science among students and the way we organize activities both at our faculty and at the national level. We will get closer to the work, the structure of the organizing committee, and the way of establishing communication with the teaching council. As multidisciplinarityis the golden standard of any recognized research, we will try to present the cooperation we have achieved with other organizations within the entire University. To spread scientific thought among colleagues, we try to regularly organize an educational program that goes beyond the standard curriculum and program framework, therefore we invite experts with experience in writing and presenting scientific papers to bring students closer to the process of research. Since research has no value until it sees the light of day, this year we are organizing invited lectures by some of the most cited medical workers, with publications in the most prestigious journals. A majority of our work involves the organization of the Congress of students of the Faculty of Medicine as well as the National ongress of students of biomedical sciences with international participation, and through this lecture, we will share our experiences when it comes to the management of such large and demanding events. As learning through examples is an effective form of learning, through the example of one of the awarded papers from last year’s National Congress, we will present the results of research on the topic of Morphological and functional characteristics of the left atrium in women in the generative period with arterial hypertension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The spread of COVID-19 has caused the interruption of education in all levels of schools, forcing them to seek urgent solutions to reconfigure traditional education programs for distance learning. The emergency restrictions related to social distancing, gathering, etc., have generated a disruption, resulting in a massive quick shift to distance and online teaching. The disruption of teaching has been highly critical and complex, especially for developing countries due to the lack of technological infrastructure, low Internet access, low level of preparation of teachers and parents to use technology, and lack of learning motivation. This paper aimed at identifying the main teaching practices, challenges, and contextual characteristics that impacted the adoption and use of online teaching solutions, during the COVID-19 outbreak, in a developing country, Albania. The paper reached this goal by providing the results of a survey involving 100 educators from different levels of public education institutions in Albania (high schools and universities). The results revealed that despite a set of challenges faced, the online teaching experience during the pandemic time brought improvements in computer teaching skills and communication with students by using several applications for interactivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper discusses how insights from translanguaging theory and pedagogy can help inform and promote genre pedagogy for teaching business communication courses such as writing and translation. To this end, the first part traces and reviews the developments of genre theory and pedagogy in tandem with translanguaging theory and pedagogy, thus teasing out their similarities and differences in historical roots, core premises, theoretical frameworks, and research methodologies. In light of these integrated accounts, the second part of the paper proposes a genre-based pedagogical framework augmented with key tenets and general principles of translanguaging pedagogy to design and implement task activities and classroom practice in teaching business communication courses in the Greater Bay Area (GBA). The paper then outlines perceivable advantages and potential challenges to the application of this translanguaging-informed genre-based pedagogical approach in curriculum design and professional training practice in superdiverse megapolis regions such as the GBA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present paper is based entirely on secondary sources of information, mainly drawn from the 2001 and 2011 Censuses of India and West Bengal. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the present literacy trends of the ethnic communities of West Bengal, and comparing the data over a decade (2001-2011). The difference between male and female has also been focused. The fact remains that a large number of tribal women might have missed educational opportunities at different stages and in order to empower them varieties of skill training programmes have to be designed and organised. Implementation of systematic processes like Information Education Communication (IEC) should be done to educate communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is twofold: (a) to present the existing regional research related to customer education and communication in municipal waste recycling from the viewpoint of a comparative bibliometric analysis and (b) to illustrate how municipal waste recycling practices in the two countries mirror the theoretical trends identified in the literature and the EU institutional and policy requirements. We discuss the practical implementation of municipal waste recycling practices in the two European countries and provide practical recommendations for local governments, municipal companies, and other stakeholders of the municipal waste management process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes an educational project on teaching rhetoric at the university level as part of practical rhetoric workshops. What makes this didactic proposal innovative and unique is the incorporation of improvisation tools in rhetoric classes. The aim of the article is to demonstrate how techniques from contemporary improvisational theatre help students improve their communication skills. The article begins with a brief overview of rhetorical education at Polish universities and a description of basic rhetorical competences related to the creation and analysis of texts. An introduction to improvisational theatre and the specifics of improvisation workshops are presented. Then, a proposal is made to combine these different approaches to the development of communicative competences in a series of workshops. Two exercises are presented, representative of the entire workshop series and devoted to the categories of ethos and narration. The benefits of using this method are discussed by showing the learning outcomes as a specific connection between communicative competences and the mechanisms of understanding rhetorical categories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study compares a traditional paper presentation approach and a case study method for the development and improvement of oral communication skills and critical-thinking skills in a class of junior forensic science majors. A rubric for rating performance in these skills was designed on the basis of the oral communication competencies developed by the National Communications Association for college students. The results provided evidence that case studies are a more effective approach for teaching scientific oral communication skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Beginning with the initial premise that as the Internet has a global character, the paper will argue that the normative evaluation of digital information on the Internet necessitates an evaluative model that is itself universal and global in character (I agree, therefore, with Gorniak- Kocikowska’s claim that because of its global nature “computer ethics has to be regarded as global ethics”. (Gorniak-Kocikowska, Science and Engineering Ethics, ). The paper will show that information has a dual normative structure that commits all disseminators of information to both epistemological and ethical norms that are in principle universal and thus global in application. Based on this dual normative characterization of information the paper will seek to demonstrate: (1) that information and internet information ( interformation) specifically, as a process and product of communication, has an inherent normative structure that commits its producers, disseminators, communicators and users, everyone in fact that deals with information, to certain mandatory epistemological and ethical commitments; and (2) that the negligent or purposeful abuse of information in violation of the epistemological and ethical commitments to which its inherent normative structure gives rise is also a violation of universal rights to freedom and wellbeing to which all agents are entitled by virtue of being agents, and in particular informational agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we present the Eastern European (EE) region as part of the Global South with all its disadvantages, and we will argue that “Sovietization” of the region is, in many respects, similar to the colonization of different world regions. We also show that the disadvantages of the region still exist after the transition, and EE has an especially low contribution to communication and media studies (CMS). With a brief bibliometric analysis in CMS, the paper demonstrates that a strong bias holds against EE authors and editorial board members in leading periodicals in CMS, and at least 95% of EE research remains unnoticed by international scholars. We further argue that this phenomenon is obviously harmful to the field of CMS. This paper not only points out the general difficulties Eastern European communication scholars might face when trying to make their research internationally visible, but it also snatches at the chance to introduce a novel, a respected but internationally yet unnoticed Easter European (Hungarian) communication theory, namely, the Participation Theory of Communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of staying relevant when teaching communication and advertising courses is hardly a new concept nor is the use of modern and evolving technologies to achieve this goal. However, empirically assessing college students' perceptions of online learning when it is a forced choice is an underexplored area. To address this gap and consider the perspectives of diverse student populations, this paper analyzes data collected from a large communication class at a Hispanic serving institution. The purpose of this research is to better understand students' perceptions of teaching technologies, class sizes, benefits and hindrances of online learning, preferred course delivery methods, social adaptations, and perceptions of how their university has handled the transition. Data revealed face-to-face courses were the most desired modality with no race or first-generation (FG) differences; however, gender differences were present. Class size impacted modality preference as well as preference for the inclusion of specific online tools. Additionally, a longitudinal comparison of student data between 2018 and 2020, before and after the onset of the global pandemic, revealed significant differences in student preparedness, faculty interaction, and institutional communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At this stage, the combination of information technology and education has continuously achieved breakthroughs, and the development of online education has ushered in a good opportunity. Especially after the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, online learning has developed rapidly. High-quality multimedia online education platforms have won a large number of users, among which are NetEase courses, MOCC, and online platforms built by domestic universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University. After just a few years of development, these open online course platforms have become the representatives of online education platforms. With their high complementarity to offline education, they provide a useful supplement to the ideological and political teaching in schools at all levels in my country. How to make better use of the advantages of the multimedia network education platform so that it can exert a far-reaching influence in the field of ideological and political teaching has become an important subject for further innovation in this field. This paper analyzes the current situation of multimedia online teaching in colleges and universities by means of a questionnaire survey, summarizes the disadvantages, and puts forward suggestions for improvement. In view of the problems existing in multimedia teaching at this stage, we should promote the efficiency of multimedia teaching platform; training is carried out to improve teachers' ability to use multimedia; resources are coordinated and a unified data resource base is created. The results show that the combination of offline teaching and multimedia network teaching can improve students' enthusiasm in learning ideological and political courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Blended learning has taken center stage in higher education because it involves overseeing of "Online learning" and the ongoing growth of teaching reform in colleges and universities. Internet promotes the reconfiguration and integration of educational resources. The Internet has greatly magnified the role and value of high-quality educational resources. Blended teaching combines the advantages of traditional teaching and network teaching to complement each other; it not only gives full play to the flexibility and autonomy of network teaching, but also retains the connection of teacher-student emotional communication in traditional teaching. Translation teaching is an important part of college English teaching. This article mainly introduces the research of college English translation (CET) blended teaching strategies under the Internet background. This paper proposes a research plan for CET blended teaching strategies under the Internet background, including literature research method, questionnaire survey method, analytic hierarchy process, expert interview method, teaching evaluation sentiment classification algorithm based on feature-weighted Stacking algorithm, and analytic hierarchy process of the teaching effect evaluation algorithm. The experimental results of this article show that the average value of the questionnaire Cronbach's α coefficient is 0.915, demonstrating that the study's information is both extremely plausible and reasonably real. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper intends to demonstrate how teaching and research of political communication have some inherent flaws in India. There is a huge amount of research literature available in the field of political communication in relation to communication campaigns, alternative strategies, populism, public relations, etc. But on the other hand, there is also a research gap in this literature cornering the ideological asymmetries, which makes media debates in India very complex and contradictory at the same time. Within the broad discussion about media debates and political communication, this paper confines its scope to the inquiry of political debates in print, visual and social media. Inconsistencies and irregularities in the comparison of political behavior in India, in relation to the general description of political communication are explicit in the existing research. This gives space to the formulation of research problem in teaching/research of political communication in the Indian context. The paper will investigate the questions that emerge out of the formulated research problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research of the problem of peer violence, i.e. bullying, has great theoretical and practical significance, because if it is frequently spoken about violence, the phenomenon can be prevented, thus avoiding serious consequences, threatening for child development. In the society where we live, violence is widespread. The increase of violence is manifested in schools, as well. This was the very reason made us focus on the study of this problem. Although it seems that bullying is a researched topic of a large body of domestic and foreign research, the issue is becoming more pressing. The aim of the present paper is to review research papers on peer violence, i.e. bullying, and to systematize knowledge in this field which would result in the creation of guidelines for practical work. In this review we used the services of Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition - KOBSON in order to browse and investigate research papers. The search included articles published in the period between 2000 and 2014. Investigation included a great number of papers but 60 of them were used for the present paper. A qualitative research was conducted in which content analysis was used as a procedure of investigation. Concerns about bullying have intensified demands to explain the problem and to take measures to resolve it. It is necessary that all schools implement various programs and projects whose objectives are teaching non-violent communication, reducing violence in schools as well as the activation of children and youth. As a consequence, peer violence can be decreased and prevented by suppressing what drives it and by changing the motives causing it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Educational migration and academic mobility have turned national universities into multi-ethnic and multilingual educational institutions. With international students coming from abroad and a growing number of students from the various regions of Russia, intercultural communication has become a feature of academic practices for both students and teaching staff. The paper addresses culturally determined specifics of academic communication in the multicultural education space of Russian universities. The purpose of the paper is to present the results of research carried out with the aim of defining the types of cultural indices applying classifications suggested by Edward Hall, Geert Hofstede, Fons Trompenaars and Richard Lewis, and analyse the influence of cultural and ethnic specifics on intercultural communication in the university. Implementation of research on the basis of four Russian universities included surveying and interviewing students as well as analysing the results obtained and case analysis. The key findings made it possible to classify and give a detailed description of the cultures of the post-soviet states as well as several regional cultures of Russia with regard to behavioural patterns. The paper further discusses reasons for communicative failures in the classroom, including linguistic barriers, and ways of preventing and overcoming them. The paper argues that awareness of ethnic and cultural specifics helps to break barriers in intercultural communication in the university and streamline the teaching process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Higher education teaching abruptly changed during the COVID-19 pandemic to remote, on-line learning and teaching. The use of on-line communication software to teach became the norm and remains at many institutions. This software contains features, such as the chat, that offer teaching and learning advantages; however, potential benefits can be challenging to realise for academics used to traditional modes of lecture delivery. In most cases a solo-taught lecture designed for a physical room does not transition well to the on-line space. Co-teaching, which involves two or more academics teaching the same class, is a pedagogy that can improve engagement and satisfaction for students and academics alike. However, how co-teaching can transition to the on-line space and take full benefit of the communication software features is not well known. We recognised that some aspects of sports announcing (commentating) align with desirable qualities of co-teaching on-line. In this paper we use these features to develop a practical framework for co-teaching in the on-line space and evaluate the model in a second-year university science subject. Using data from student surveys, we found that the coteaching model helped integrate the chat functionality into the main lecture and led to improved engagement and enjoyment of on-line classes. The model also assisted students in identifying key learning outcomes. Using the framework as a practical guide for how to incorporate co-teaching into online classes helps realise the benefits of contemporary communication software. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The integration of computer-mediated communication and language teaching has been a common practice in the higher institutes internationally. The effective application of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in network-based foreign language teaching depends on the optimal balance between the use of teaching methods, teaching sources, and teaching means in a specific learning environment. Based on the current literature research on CMC, this paper mainly introduces the CMC in foreign language learning from its time characteristics, compares the language generation under synchronous and asynchronous CMC, and discusses and analyzes the setting of teaching tasks and the application of CMC in teaching practice, as well as the possible technical availability problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Invert the model of learning in the classroom as a new model in the field of education as modern Internet technologies develop and the concept of learning is updated. It is widely used and promoted in various disciplines. Scholars and front-line teachers have begun to try to introduce the flipped classroom teaching model into language classrooms. With this opportunity, practical studies on flipping classes in foreign languages have emerged. At the same time, the study of the learning process in the classroom has become a problem that needs to be urgently addressed. At present, the linguistic field generally regards the specific teacher-student discourse interaction and verbal communication patterns in the teaching process as a research trend. For the Japanese teaching field, the research on the specific characteristics and patterns of teacher-student verbal communication in classroom discourse is a top priority. Drawing on previous research theories and research methods, the two key research topics are combined. Taking the foreign language curriculum under two different classroom teaching modes as the empirical research object, this paper studies the specific classroom teaching process by using the interaction theory of sociology. At the same time, it uses the Flanders Interaction Analysis System (FIAS) to conduct detailed quantitative research on the interaction of teachers and students in classroom discourse, and analyze and discuss the statistical results. The relevant teaching suggestions for the application of the Japanese flipped classroom teaching mode are put forward, and the problems that must be paid attention to in the practical application are pointed out, in order to provide meaningful reference and reference for the construction of the Japanese teaching mode. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]