Understanding Communication

Jul 24, 2024

DepEd TV Lecture: Understanding Communication

Introduction

  • Presenter: Ma'am Berry
  • Key Topics: Oral communication, listening and speaking skills, communication strategies.

Objectives

  • Understand the nature and elements of communication
  • Value the functions of communication
  • Recognize speech context, style, act, and strategy
  • Achieve communicative competence
  • Improve communication skills
  • Craft effective speeches

Nature and Process of Communication

Definition of Communication

  • Sending and receiving messages using various forms (symbols, gestures, sounds, drawings, sign languages)
  • Advanced over years with technology: text messages, phone calls, video calls, chat messages.

Importance of Communication

  • Keeps social beings connected and helps build relationships
  • Example: Comic strip showing unsuccessful communication between Gary and Ben due to lack of listening.

Forms of Communication

  • Written Communication: Letters, text messages, emails, chat messages
  • Spoken Words (Verbal Communication): Sounds produced using vocal tract
  • Nonverbal Communication: Gestures, posture, facial expressions, hand signals

Elements of Communication

  1. Sender: Source of message (could be the speaker or you)
  2. Receiver: Recipient or intended audience (could be the listener or you)
  3. Message: Contains information, ideas, opinions, thoughts, emotions
  4. Channel: Medium used to deliver the message (speaking, writing, letters, TV, radio)
  5. Feedback: Reactions or responses from the receiver (no response is also a response)

Communication Process

  • Encoding: Sender constructs the message in mind, writing, or media
  • Transmission: Message is sent to the receiver
  • Decoding: Receiver reads or listens and understands the message
  • Feedback: Receiver responds to the sender
  • Cycle: Process repeats creating a systematic communication process
  • Barriers: May block transmission and create misunderstandings

Purpose of Communication

  • Functions: Inform, clarify, promote, advise, teach, affirm, criticize, question, express, persuade, reveal, deny

Activities

  • Module Activity: Create a chart of daily communication transactions and analyze their results and functions.
  • Output Making: Create a comic strip showing communication of health protocols amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Quiz Questions: Multiple-choice questions testing understanding of communication concepts.

Quiz Answers

  1. D. Communication
  2. A. Eating dinner
  3. C. Nodding and making eye contact
  4. A. Each party has different languages
  5. D. Message
  6. D. Nonverbal communication
  7. B. Communication is done only through speaking with others
  8. A. Active listening
  9. B. When the receiver decodes the message
  10. B. A two-way process

Conclusion

  • Emphasis on communication process and elements
  • Dairy Minder: “Don’t just speak with your mind, speak with your heart.”

Next Episode

  • Topic: Models of Communication