Remote Online Language Assessment: Eliciting Discourse from Children and Adults

Natalia Gagarina, Angel Chan, Wenchun Yang

Frontiers Media SA

Being able to collect valid data is crucial for empirical science disciplines such as linguistics,...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communication

Keywords: child and adult language,­discourse,­Language assessment,­Narrative,­Online Testing,­Remote testing

Drawing Multimodality's Bigger Picture: Metalanguages and Corpora for Multimodal Analyses

Janina Wildfeuer, Claudia Lehmann

Frontiers Media SA

Multimodality has most recently been described no longer as a research field or discipline on its...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communication Multimodality of Communication

Keywords: metalanguage,­external language,­corpus,­Method,­interdisciplinarity,­Empirical analysis

Capturing Talk: The Institutional Practices Surrounding the Transcription of Spoken Language

Martha Komter, Helen Fraser, Emma Richardson, Felicity Deamer, Kate Haworth, Debbie Loakes

Frontiers Media SA

Across a range of institutional settings, ‘practitioners’ and ‘professionals’ are eliciting and...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communication Language Communication

Keywords: transcription,­Institutional settings,­Institutional practices,­Ownership,­Spoken interaction,­entextualisation

Digital participation and communication disorders across the lifespan

Petra Jaecks, Hendrike Frieg, Kristina Jonas

Frontiers Media SA

Science Psychology Developmental Psychology

Keywords: Digital participation,­Digital Inclusion,­Communication Disorders,­digital divide

Instructional Communication Competence and Instructor Social Presence: Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the Online Environment

Sherwyn Morreale, Patrick R. Lowenthal, Janice Thorpe, Larisa Olesova

Frontiers Media SA

The coronavirus pandemic mandated unexpected 'instant transitions' to remote learning and...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communication Culture and Communication

Keywords: Online Education,­Online Learning,­Instructional Communication Competence,­Instructor Immediacy,­Instructor presence,­Instructor social presence,­Teaching presence

The dark and the light side of gaming

Felix Reer, Marko Siitonen, Teresa De La Hera

Frontiers Media SA

Science Psychology Human-Media Interaction

Keywords: Digital Games,­Media Effects,­Media Use,­Gaming communities,­Video game culture

COVID-19: Risk Communication and Blame

Victoria Team, Rukhsana Ahmed, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Audra Diers-Lawson

Frontiers Media SA

In the context of COVID-19, political leaders, governments, public health authorities, and citizens...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communication Health Communication

Modality and Language Acquisition: How does the channel through which language is expressed affect how children and adults are able to learn?

Richard P. Meier, Christian Rathmann, Aaron Shield

Frontiers Media SA

It is now commonly accepted that the human language faculty is created, processed, and stored in...

Science Psychology Psychology of Language

Keywords: first language acquisition,­Second Language Acquisition,­modality,­multimodality,­sign language,­Speech,­Iconicity,­Language

Evidence-based science communication in the COVID-19 era

Eric A. Jensen, Axel Pfleger, Tuo Chen, Alexander Gerber, Jessica Norberto Rocha

Frontiers Media SA

Humanities and Social Sciences Communication Science and Environmental Communication

Keywords: Science Communication,­Health Communication,­Environmental Communication,­Public Engagement,­science of science communication,­Evidence-based science communication,­Evaluation,­Social science research