A Conceptual Model Of Communication Process Employed In Academic Online Written Interaction

The understanding of interaction content would enhance one’s understanding of how to communicate efficiently and efficacy among interlocutors. It is vital as the rise of the technology’s devices exploited, and Internet has changed how communication works. One of it, mobile phones, has been utilized as a tool that develops interaction or communication among learners in tertiary academic institutions as it nurtures creative and critical thinking in the academic lessons setting as known as online written interaction. They have adapted these technologies in their academic system; due to its approach which aids synchronous and asynchronous learning towards achieving educational outcomes. Especially, it is basically incontestable as a medium of
shared understanding of the messages or information expressed and exchanged globally. The communication process in the academic online written interaction progressed reflects that models of communication expanded to more kinds of communication process as well. Significantly, the models of communication serve as valuable purpose as that allows us in the academic setting to understand the specific concepts and steps within the process of communication. There are three general types of communication models in which all other communication models are mostly categorized namely; linear, interactive, and transaction models. Yet, for the setting of online written interaction, this paper intends to discuss and confers of how interactive
and transaction model of communication overlaps and frames the academic interaction’s process among the learners respectively. It is essential to understand the communication models, so one can use them for enhancing effective communication for their teaching and learning session onto practice.

Keywords: Models of communication; communication process; online written interaction