About communication.

Just writing what I’ve learnt in school, during NMT tutorial. It is about  communications. I didnt know communication has a process until then. I have learnt a lot about communication during lesson.

Firstly, I learnt about the communication process. in this, there is a communication model, which is like a cycle.The messenger will then encode his message, in other word convey his messaeg with either words, behaviour or body language  that can help him to communicate best to the receiver. The message will thengo through a channel such as face – to – face or phone conversation, letter, e-mail etc. The receiver will then decode the message using canventions, cultural or contextual background and language skills.

Secondly, it is about interference. The receiver might not be able to get the intent of what the messager wants to communicate to the person proplerly.And this is when poor communication occurs. That is why sometimes when you send a mssage through your handphone to your friend, it may cause misunderstanding if you emphasize the wrong word in your message.

There was also another article given to us to read, which is about Claude Shannon (1916 – 2001).It os something similar of what i just shared.In this article, it tells us about his thoery towards commmunication.One of the thing that got my attention is the two factors, the interference : physical noise and semantic noise. Examples of physical noise are roar of passing traffic, interference on a radio broadcast, poor TV reception etc. Examples of semantic noise are distraction that will distract you from paying attention to the mesenger, inability to translate the message, incorrect emphasize, attitude to the sender and to the message. This two factors reminded me of how I am misunderstood by my friend and how misunderstanding occurs.

In conclusion, I enjoyed the lesson and this helps me to better communicate with my friends and family members. Really did not expect whatever i learnt in school can be applied in my other areas of life too. So people,school can be interesting too if you see it in a different pespective.

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