Exploring the Relationship between Interactional Competence and Group Oral Communication

From job interviews to working in a professional field, clear and effective interactional competence especially in face-to-face oral communication is vital for workplace interactions. As such, group oral communication is taught and assessed at academic institutions to enhance students’ turn-taking s...

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Main Authors:	Ezihaslinda, Ngah, Siti Hamin, Stapa
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Language:	English
Published:	UMP Press 2019
Subjects:	PE English
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spelling	ump-274482020-01-15T07:51:43Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27448/ Exploring the Relationship between Interactional Competence and Group Oral Communication Ezihaslinda, Ngah Siti Hamin, Stapa PE English From job interviews to working in a professional field, clear and effective interactional competence especially in face-to-face oral communication is vital for workplace interactions. As such, group oral communication is taught and assessed at academic institutions to enhance students’ turn-taking skills as an interactional competence. The approach is used to develop ESL students’ turn-taking skills particularly for low proficiency students. Therefore, this study aims to explore turn-taking skills of low proficiency ESL students in a mixed ability group discussion assessment. The group discussion interactions were audio visually recorded and analysed using Conversation Analysis. The transcriptions were analysed using the micro-analysis account focusing only on the turn-taking skills. Notably, self-selected, or indexical speaker selection by posing questions for another speaker to continue or using gaze or gestural signs was the prominent turn-taking skill used by the students to maintain intersubjectivity during group discussion. This somehow facilitated them in ensuring active involvement of all group members, and as an indicator for their interactional competence. This study concludes by discussing how turn-taking skills in group oral communication can benefit low proficiency language users’ interactional competence in learning the target language. UMP Press 2019 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27448/1/xploring%20the%20Relationship%20between%20Interactional.pdf Ezihaslinda, Ngah and Siti Hamin, Stapa (2019) Exploring the Relationship between Interactional Competence and Group Oral Communication. International Journal of Language Education and Applied Linguistics (IJLEAL), 9 (2). pp. 55-65. ISSN 2289-7208 (print); 2289-9294 (online) http://journal.ump.edu.my/ijleal/article/view/300
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spellingShingle	PE English Ezihaslinda, Ngah Siti Hamin, Stapa Exploring the Relationship between Interactional Competence and Group Oral Communication
description	From job interviews to working in a professional field, clear and effective interactional competence especially in face-to-face oral communication is vital for workplace interactions. As such, group oral communication is taught and assessed at academic institutions to enhance students’ turn-taking skills as an interactional competence. The approach is used to develop ESL students’ turn-taking skills particularly for low proficiency students. Therefore, this study aims to explore turn-taking skills of low proficiency ESL students in a mixed ability group discussion assessment. The group discussion interactions were audio visually recorded and analysed using Conversation Analysis. The transcriptions were analysed using the micro-analysis account focusing only on the turn-taking skills. Notably, self-selected, or indexical speaker selection by posing questions for another speaker to continue or using gaze or gestural signs was the prominent turn-taking skill used by the students to maintain intersubjectivity during group discussion. This somehow facilitated them in ensuring active involvement of all group members, and as an indicator for their interactional competence. This study concludes by discussing how turn-taking skills in group oral communication can benefit low proficiency language users’ interactional competence in learning the target language.
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author	Ezihaslinda, Ngah Siti Hamin, Stapa
author_facet	Ezihaslinda, Ngah Siti Hamin, Stapa
author_sort	Ezihaslinda, Ngah
title	Exploring the Relationship between Interactional Competence and Group Oral Communication
title_short	Exploring the Relationship between Interactional Competence and Group Oral Communication
title_full	Exploring the Relationship between Interactional Competence and Group Oral Communication
title_fullStr	Exploring the Relationship between Interactional Competence and Group Oral Communication
title_full_unstemmed	Exploring the Relationship between Interactional Competence and Group Oral Communication
title_sort	exploring the relationship between interactional competence and group oral communication
publisher	UMP Press
publishDate	2019
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27448/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27448/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/27448/1/xploring%20the%20Relationship%20between%20Interactional.pdf
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