Developing multimodal communicative competence in emerging academic and professional genres

Communicative Competence: Novice versus Professional Engineers' Perceptions

The notion of communicative competence has been deemed fuzzy in communication studies. This fuzziness has led to tensions among engineers across tenures in interpreting what constitutes communicative competence. The study seeks to investigate novice and professional engineers’ understanding of the said notion in terms of two main elements of communicative competence: linguistic and rhetorical c...

Fiction in the Context of Developing Students' Professional and Communicative Competencies (in the Field of Hospitality)

The article discusses the methodological potential of fiction in developing professional and communicative competencies of Hospitality students based on interdisciplinary approach. The study focuses on the most actual aspects of speech culture and describes the ways of developing professionally oriented communicative competencies and the basics of professional speech training of bachelors in th...

Social media as communicative genres

55 As a focus of study, ‘social media’ tend to lack definitional clarity and grounding in theories of media and text. This paper establishes and discusses a conceptual framework for defining social media as communicative genres, constituted by the interplay between interactive functionalities configured at the software level and the invocation and appropriation of various software functionaliti...

Towards Assessing Communicative Competence Using Multimodal Learning Analytics

Multimodal Learning Analytics (MLA) technology has received increasing attention in the learning science field. Recently, novel types of assessments using MLA to analyze the process of student activities have been advocated. In this paper, we suggest an extension of MLA to educational assessments measuring communicative competence. MLA is useful for the measurement of all aspects of the human c...

Development of Communicative Competence 1 Running head: DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Development of Communicative Competence Through Private and Inner Speech