TOWARDS THE STUDENTS’ USE OF BACKCHANNEL SIGNALS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF VIRTUAL (ZOOM) CLASS: THE STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE

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  • Mariam Nebieridze

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52340/PUTK.2023.2346-8149.04

Keywords:

students’ backchannel signals, Zoom class, online classroom discourse

Abstract

This paper deals with special signals which show the speaker that their message is getting through. These signals are examined in online classroom discourse, taking place via Zoom and emphasis is placed on students’ perspective in relation to the use of the abovementioned signals. The data were collected through questionnaires that have been prepared in Google Form to circulate among the undergraduate students from the Department of English Philology, Faculty of Humanities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. After the thorough study of linguistic and empirical data, the frequency of the usage of backchannels by students has been established and the types of backchannel signals were distinguished. In addition, the students’ perspective on the function of the backchannel signals has been determined and Zoom-specific backchannel signals were identified.

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Author Biography

Mariam Nebieridze

Mariam Nebieridze has been an English language teacher at the Language Centre, Department of English Philology of Tbilisi State University. She received her PhD at TSU. Her thesis was Peculiarities of Linguistic Realization of System and Ritual Constraints in British, American and Georgian Talk Shows. A number of articles have been published at local scholarly journals. Her sphere of interests includes sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, media studies and pragmatics.

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2023-07-11

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Nebieridze, M. (2023). TOWARDS THE STUDENTS’ USE OF BACKCHANNEL SIGNALS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF VIRTUAL (ZOOM) CLASS: THE STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE. Online Journal of Humanities ETAGTSU, (8), pages 11. https://doi.org/10.52340/PUTK.2023.2346-8149.04

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