Facilitation of team communication skill among engineers: an empirical study

Mehta, Nikhil; Jha, Sumi

doi:10.1108/heswbl-04-2019-0055

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“…Some students relied on their confidence and paralinguistic communication skills such as voice modulation, facial expressions. They agreed that presentations helped them improve some fluency in English, they learnt to speak with clarity of thought and expression and acquired new wordsmost of these have been reported as problems of Indian engineers (Weider and Pratt, 1990;Clement and Murugavel, 2015;Mehta and Jha, 2020). The majority of the students admitted that they enjoyed working in a group, only a few felt they would have done better alone or as individual presenters.…”

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“…Their study successfully used presentation, technical writing and teamwork to teach engineering graphics. Similarly, presentations have been used to build communication skills in a team (Mehta and Jha, 2020). Another similar integrated approach to teaching language to engineers brought crossdisciplinary collaboration (Rice and Stetler, 2004) by making presentations a part of other disciplines.…”

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Exploring the communication skills of Indian engineering undergraduates: a partial ethnographic study

Kaushal

Talwar

2021

HESWBL

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PurposeEngineers graduating from premier institutions of India look for global opportunities that will provide a chance to work with the best and the most innovative minds in the world. Nevertheless, to compete in the global job market, they require added competence in English. However, it is seen that despite exemplary hard skills, lack of good communication skills has obstructed the growth of engineers. This study aims to find a viable tool to enhance engineering students' communication skills despite many limitations. The purpose of this study is to explore how presentations can be used to address problems of low levels of English ability in highly skilled, high-functioning engineering professions.Design/methodology/approachThis paper discusses a study conducted in India's premier institution where around 240 first-semester engineering students were the sample. It uses partial ethnographic research to verify its hypothesis that presentations compel students to plan, prepare, practise and perfect their communication skills. It presents an ethnographic experiment conducted by the researchers and data collected using the qualitative research method of interviews.FindingsThe results of the paper indicate that making engineers plan, prepare and make presentations can explore their ability to communicate in English. It also concludes that presentation helps students explore all four language skills, that is, reading the information collected, listening to peers, writing or preparing their presentation and finally speaking in front of the audience.Practical implicationsThis paper argues that presentation can be made a practice even in a large class of multi-level second language (L2) learners as it will generate interest in students and will develop many qualities such as team spirit, confidence and public speaking.Social implicationsThis study will help to address problems of low levels of English ability in highly skilled, high-functioning engineering professions.Originality/valueSince engineering classes in Indian institutes often comprise 80–120 students, the English teachers face immense challenge of simultaneously improving communication skills of a large number of students who are multi-lingual, multi-level L2 learners. Therefore, this paper presents an effective and interesting way of involving all the students and using presentation to improve their communication skills.

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Exploring the communication skills of Indian engineering undergraduates: a partial ethnographic study

Kaushal

Talwar

2021

HESWBL

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“…Communication skills also allow an individual to identify and communicate the related information with a proper channel that facilitates the communication process. It is important to note that the development of social media globally has impacted communication skills as it allows an individual to gain access to the communication tools which enable the communication process to take place easily (Mehta & Jha, 2021). Creo et al (2020) stated that communication skills establish the proper tone and emotions among individuals so that communication can take place effectively.…”

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Factors Influencing Academic Achievement of University Students

Chan,

Dai

2023

JCLC

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Academic achievement is one of the significant outcomes of the formal education processes. Thus, understanding the factors which influence academic performance is timely. This study aims to examine the determinants that impact the academic performance of students. The determinants include student engagement, general knowledge, social skills, and communication skills. This study applied a quantitative research design, with an online survey questionnaire distributed to the students of a private university in Klang Valley, and 150 valid responses were solicited. The Pearson’s product-moment correlations in the current study demonstrated that student engagement had a positive and strong relationship with student’s academic achievement. General knowledge and social skills were found to have a positive and moderate relationship with academic achievement; however, communication skills were found to have a positive but weak correlation with academic achievement. Multiple regression analysis found that student engagement, general knowledge, and social skills were predictors of academic achievement. However, communication skills were not the predictor. In addition, this study significantly contributes to students’ social life aspects as it is consistent with the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education's initiative to integrate soft skills into the curriculum and learning processes. This will urge the university's management to develop initiatives and programmes that equip students with various soft skills to make them competent in the market force after graduation. This study also discusses the conclusion, implications, and future research directions.

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“…However, social media's role in enhancing education and information sharing still has pros and cons due to the lack of studies that validate the role of social media on information sharing in the education field. For instance, Abdur Rehman et al (2021) and Mehta and Jha (2021) applied a qualitative approach concluded during the COVID-19 pandemic, India faced limited quality interaction, motivation, class activities and interaction. Hence, we need a strategic approach (e.g.…”

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The information sharing among students on social media: the role of social capital and trust

Muliadi

Muhammadiah

Amin

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VJIKMS

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Purpose This study aims to investigate how social capital (e.g. cognitive and relational) influences students’ trust (e.g. cognitive and affective) as mediator variables, affecting students’ information sharing activity on Facebook. Design/methodology/approach The sample consists of 398 valid participants obtained through an online survey and using structural equation modeling (SEM) to test the research hypotheses. Findings The empirical results indicate that social capital has significant and positive effects on students’ trust (e.g. cognitive and affective-based trust), also mediator variables. Furthermore, the mediator variables partially mediate social capital and information sharing based on the concept of cognition-affection-behavior (CAB). Research limitations/implications This study was limited to Indonesian students. Therefore, future study is needed to analyze across cultures and regions. It can help practitioners, regulators and researchers to observe the dynamic behavior on the impact of social capital on social media users’ activities. Practical implications Education stakeholders (e.g. lecturers and teachers) can identify the students’ goal and rational concerns to improve their social capital and trust to share information. The government as a regulator needs to support students’ activities on social media to provide updated information regarding economic and social conditions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature on virtual communities. Specifically, it considers how social capital influences trust, which subsequently affects information sharing based on the CAB context among Indonesian student’ Facebook users.

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Facilitation of team communication skill among engineers: an empirical study

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Exploring the communication skills of Indian engineering undergraduates: a partial ethnographic study

Exploring the communication skills of Indian engineering undergraduates: a partial ethnographic study

Factors Influencing Academic Achievement of University Students

The information sharing among students on social media: the role of social capital and trust

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