I notice that several ex students and colleagues contact me on WeChat by voice message rather than written messages and I wonder why this is. Do they think it is easier to speak than compose a message? It seems less convenient to me as the receiver as they cannot be processed as quickly.
This is a contrast to many of my OU tutorials where many students seem keener to use text chat than the microphone.
This tweet received wide attention recently and it seemed to relate to issues on some of the courses I teach:
https://twitter.com/_11Remember_/status/1136087637914247170
Some key points that seem to emerge are:
- the interactional function is key here. It is not clear what the baby is expressing and if he understands what his father is saying (it is doubtful that he understands much of the informational content) but there seems to be a strong communication of fellow feeling, companionship here
- the communication is multimodal as the two of them use gestures to accomapany what they say
- they often mirror the gestures
An article from "The Guardian" about sign language and the importance of members of the family being able to communicate with each other:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/15/deaf-children-families-signing-access
This overlaps with some E852 themes such as multimodality and learning through language.
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