Pair Activities for Multimodal Communication of Thoughts in Presentation and Writing Production

Abstract

A writing skills course titled "Communication Skills for Science Students" is conducted for first-year undergraduates to acquire skills to communicate logically and clearly. In the learning process of this course, a series of pair activities were implemented that incorporated visualization of thoughts and interactive feedback to communicate content to others multimodally. The study results, based on the questionnaires, showed that many learners recognized that visualization and image representation were beneficial for producing storyboards for presentations and writing. Additionally, it was observed that students who found such activities helpful were more likely to reference feedback from others regarding diagrams and data.