Digital Communication
What do we use to send a short, informal message to someone online?
Chat / text message
A person regularly uses Indonesian and English. What term describes this person?
Bilingual
What is a person's mother tongue?
The language they first learned or grew up speaking.
You want to understand the general topic of a 5-page article quickly. Which strategy should you use?
Skimming
Which sentence has the same meaning as:
“Social media allows people to communicate instantly.”
A. Social media prevents people from communicating quickly.
B. Social media enables people to communicate immediately.
C. Social media makes communication more difficult.
D. Social media is only used for entertainment.
B. Social media enables people to communicate immediately.
Why might a chat message be less appropriate than an email for a formal school request?
A chat is usually more informal and may not follow formal communication conventions.
A person speaks Indonesian, English, Mandarin, and Japanese. What term best describes them?
Multilingual
Can someone's mother tongue be different from the language they are strongest in today?
Yes
You need to find the date when an event happened in a long article. Which strategy should you use?
Scanning
Paraphrase this sentence:
“Many students use digital platforms to communicate with their classmates.”
Many students communicate with their classmates through digital platforms.
A student writes: “hey miss i cant come tmrw can u send me the work??”
What are two things the student could improve?
Capitalization/punctuation and formal language.
Two people speak English, but they use different vocabulary, pronunciation, and expressions because they come from different regions. What might explain this difference?
They speak different dialects.
A student was raised speaking Indonesian at home but now uses English most often at school. Which language is likely their mother tongue?
Indonesian
When skimming, why are headings and the first sentence of each paragraph useful?
They often reveal the topic and main ideas of the text.
Which technique is NOT useful when paraphrasing?
A. Changing some vocabulary
B. Changing the sentence structure
C. Keeping the original meaning
D. Copying the original sentence word-for-word
D. Copying the original sentence word-for-word
You receive this message: “Can you send me the document?”
What could you add to make the message more polite and appropriate for a teacher?
A greeting, polite language, and/or a closing.
Example: “Hi Miss, could you please send me the document?”
True or False: Having a different dialect means that someone is speaking an incorrect version of a language.
False
Why might a multilingual person's language ability be different across different languages?
They may use different languages in different contexts, such as home, school, or with friends.
You have 2 minutes to decide whether an article is relevant to your research question. What reading strategy would you use, and what would you look for?
Skimming; look at the title, headings, introduction, keywords, and main ideas.
Paraphrase this sentence without changing its meaning:
“Learning a second language can improve a person's ability to communicate with people from different cultures.”
Learning another language can help people communicate with individuals from different cultural backgrounds.
Why can misunderstandings happen more easily in digital communication than in face-to-face communication?
Digital messages often lack tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language.
Explain the difference between language and dialect in your own words.
A dialect is a variety of a language associated with a particular region or social group and may have differences in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.
A student says, “I speak three languages, but I am only comfortable discussing science in English and family matters in Indonesian.” What does this tell us about multilingualism?
Being multilingual does not necessarily mean having the same level of proficiency in every language or being equally comfortable using each language for every topic.
You are reading an article about climate change and need to find three statistics about temperature increases. Would you skim or scan? Explain why.
Scan, because you are searching for specific information.
A student writes:
Original: “Digital communication has changed the way people interact with each other.”
Student's paraphrase: “Digital communication has changed how people communicate with one another.”
Is this a good paraphrase? Explain why.
Yes. The student changes some vocabulary and sentence structure while keeping the original meaning.