Section One: General Information about the
Participants
Q1: What is your option?
M1
Q2: How long have you being studying English?
Years.
Q3: Have you ever been abroad at a linguistics seminar?
Yes, I have No, I have not
Section Two: Students' Attitudes towards the Use of
Collaborative Visualisation in English in the Department of
English.
N.b: Collaborative visualisation allows multiple users to
communicate, interact and explore a visual representation by building on
different views and knowledge blocks contributed by each person.
- «Collaborative learning is a set of teaching and
learning strategies promoting student collaboration in small groups ( two to
five students) in order to optimize their own and each other's learning ''
(Johnson & Johnson, 1999 cited in Le, et al., 2018 ).
Q1: ``Mutual activation (active
collaboration among students) and share of knowledge is foundational for
developing students' communication skills».
? Strongly agree
? Agree
? Slightly agree
? Disagree
? Strongly disagree
Q2: «Grounding (knowledge of the basics of
something) or creating a common frame of reference (particular set of
beliefs or ideas on which you base your judgment of things)», to promote
students' communication skills, is:
? Very important n ? Important n
? Slightly important n ? Not important n
Within the process of collaborative learning, three activities
can be distinguished: focusing, checking, argumentation.
Q3: Do you try to maintain the discussion during a collaborative
activity?
- Yes n - No n
If yes,
» Asking questions n
» Suggesting ideas n
» Giving one's opinion n
» Repairing focus divergence n
» Clarifying and summarizing what has been said n
» Providing feedback n
Q4: You check the understanding of information being
communicated by:
- Asking verification questionsn
- Indicating agreement / disagreementn - Negotiating meaningn
Q5: Do you think that negotiation during collaborative
activities is important for developing your communication skills?
-Yes n - No n
Justify:
Q6: Do you better learn when collaborating or when learning
individually? Why? Put a tick on the answer (s) that suits you.
Because,
? Collaborative learning enhances involvement in the
classroomn
? Collaborative learning improves confidence through
interactionn
? I feel uncomfortable and distracted when practicing a
collaborative activityn
? I do not have the opportunity to voice my ideas and opinions
freely within a groupn
Section Three: Students' Attitudes towards Developing
Communication Skills through Collaborative Visualisation.
Q1: How can collaborative visualisation help the students
develop their communication skills?
> It promotes the exchange of information n
> It encourages you to participate more n
> It allows you to learn more n
> It develops your critical thinking n
> It facilitates the understanding of presented information
n
> It supports the remembering of the presented contents n
Q2: « The combination of Collaborative Learning and
Visualisation gives better results in learning in general and in developing
communication skills in particular»
? Strongly agree n
? Agree n
? Slightly agree n
? Disagree n
? Strongly disagree n
Justify by choosing the arguments that fit you.
- It is not sufficient to communicate effectively and clearly
n
- It is time consuming n
- It is difficult and requires a lot of efforts n
- It makes communication flexible n
- It is enjoyable n
- It increases credibility of the communicated message or
information n
Q3: Do you agree that making use ofcollaborative visualisation
may lead to debates?
- Yes n - No n
Q4: To what extent the use of collaborative visualization would
improve your communication skills?
- Very much n - Somewhat n
- Do not know n
- Not very much n - Not at all n
Q5: How can collaborative visualisation, both
synchronous and asynchronous, help in developing communication skills?
- It enables students to see data, communicate and debate in
context n
- It provides immediate feedback n
- Better real time response n
- It motivates to rapidly think and answer n
- It provides the ability to communicate with a remote team with
members of multiple
zones n
- Having a record of the communication shared that can be
referred later on n
- The chance to think before responding n
Q6: Do you check your students' understanding
of what has been being communicated in the classroom? How, if yes, is it by
Appendix2: Teachers' interview Introduction
This interview is part of a research work that aims at
gathering data about teachers' attitudes toward developing communication skills
through the use of collaborative visualisation. We would be very grateful if
you accept to do with us an interview in order to answer some of our questions.
Be sure that all your answers will be treated anonymously.
Thank you very much for your
collaboration.
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