The Role of Communication in Teaching Swimming

Authors

  • Tudor Andrei POP PhD student, Science of Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: tudy_palu@yahoo.com.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeag.68(3).24

Keywords:

teaching swimming, learning and teaching of swimming, communication, semiotics, linguistic productions.

Abstract

The present research study includes, in the first part, the synthesis of the literature regarding the theoretical framework of meaning construction, from information theory to the semiotics of reception and the concept of “horizon of expectation” in the reception of the teacher’s linguistic productions, and in the second part, it includes the research methodology. The results of the research identify the average frequency of responses for all situations. After the study took place resulted 6 important findings like a direct and unambiguous reading strategy for the teacher (P), a considerable loss of meaning between the teacher’s language production and the student’s reception, higher reading fluency in the GE group, reading difficulties in GT group, recognition of meaning is earlier and more relevant in GE, and the fact that verbal productions make it possible to complete sequence, a misunderstanding for GT. The conclusions reveal that the messages transmitted through verbal and non-verbal teacher-student communication are received rather by connotation than by denotation.

Rolul comunicării în predarea înotului. Prezentul studiu de cercetare cuprinde, în prima parte, sinteza literaturii de specialitate privind cadrul teoretic al construcției sensului, de la teoria informației la semiotica receptării și conceptul de „orizont de așteptare” în receptarea producțiilor lingvistice ale profesorului, iar în partea a doua, include metodologia cercetării. Rezultatele cercetării identifică frecvența medie a răspunsurilor pentru toate situațiile. După interpretarea studiului au rezultat 6 constatări importante, precum o strategie de lectură directă și neechivocă pentru profesor (P), o pierdere considerabilă a sensului între producția de limbaj a profesorului și recepția elevului, fluență mai mare în citire la grupul GE, dificultăți de citire în grupul GT, recunoașterea semnificației este mai devreme și mai relevantă în grupul GE și faptul că producțiile verbale fac posibilă completarea secvenței, o neînțelegere pentru grupul GT. Concluziile relevă faptul că mesajele transmise prin comunicare verbală și nonverbală profesor-elev sunt primite mai degrabă prin conotație decât prin denotație. 

Cuvinte-cheie: predarea înotului, învățarea și predarea înotului, comunicarea, semiotică, producții lingvistice. 

Received 2023 July 23; Revised 2023 September 3; Accepted 2023 September 4Available online 2023 September 30; Available print 2023 November 30

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2023-09-30

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POP, T. A. . (2023). The Role of Communication in Teaching Swimming. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Educatio Artis Gymnasticae, 68(3), 65–83. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeag.68(3).24

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