Learners’ willingness to communicate in face-to-face versus oral computer-mediated communication

Multimodal Communication in Face-to-Face Computer-Mediated Conversations

Multimodal communication involves multiple communicative channels including speech, facial movement, and gesture. Relatively few studies on how various communicative modalities are aligned in natural, face-to-face communication exist. As part of a larger project, the current study investigates how discourse structure, speech features, eye gaze, and facial movements interrelate during a map coor...

Student elaborations in face-to-face versus computer-mediated-communication learning situations

An Experimental Analysis of Face to Face versus Computer Mediated Communication Channels

Experimental research on Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) has generally focused on democratic groups whose members typically share the same objectives. In organizations, however, there are many situations where groups have a leader who has the power to override the group’s recommendation, the objective of the leader may not be the same as the objective of each member, and not everyone may ...

The effect of informal social support: Face-to-face versus computer-mediated communication

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.chb.2011.03.008 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 609 216 2731. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. L Survey data were collected on a military sample to test two main hypotheses about the impact of face-toface and computer-mediated social support following disruptive life events. We tested two main hypotheses: first, as p...

Relationship among Self-perceived Oral Competence, Communication Apprehension, and Iranian EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate: Cooperative teaching in focus

Speaking is deemed by many scholars as a fundamental skill in second language (L2) learning. From the myriad of factors playing a role in willingness to communicate (WTC) in a foreign language, communication apprehension and self-perceived competence have attracted a good deal of interest in recent decades. Furthermore, it is generally agreed that cooperative teaching can enhance learners' ling...