Adler, Rosenfeld, and Proctor divide co-cultures into several different groups. These groups are age, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality, geographic region, physical disability, religion, socioeconomic status, and activity (Adler, Rosenfeld & Proctor, 2015, p.39). My experiences with communication stem from the many co-cultures that I participate in. One group that defined the way I communicate across different cultures and co-cultures is through my educational background. Homeschooling has given me an interesting set of communication skills. The communication competency techniques that I have learned through my homeschool years, affected my ability to successfully transition to an unfamiliar college setting.
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63). The authors illustrate this point through the story of Ning Chang and her shock over her experiences in an American College. Chang describes how she struggled to change her behavior, according to these new cultural rules (Adler et al., 2015). Even though my transition into the college classroom was nowhere near as difficult as her experience, I was also shocked by some of the behaviors of the students around me. Thus I was feeling what Adler, Rosenfeld, and Proctor refer to in their text as, “adjustment shock” (Adler et al., 2015). This transition, however, was accomplished due to “mindfulness” (Adler et al., 2015, p. 62). “Mindfulness” occurs when someone is “aware…of one’s own behavior and that of others” (Adler et al., 2015). One of the techniques in interpersonal communication is “mindfulness” (Adler et al., 2015). During my homeschool years, I used this technique through watching my siblings and other homeschoolers interact with each other. I experienced this form of communication competence through an unfamiliar classroom setting. In college, I utilized this method by watching my more experienced classmates. Through my surveillance, I learned when and how to enter into a class discussion and appropriate class behavior. This coincides with Berger’s “passive observation” which, ‘involves noticing what behavior members of a different culture use and applying these insights to communicate in ways that are most effective” (Adler et al., 2015, p 63). An example of this occurred in my Spanish 101 class. In my Spanish class each student had to give a speech in Spanish about themselves. I decided to watch some of my other students’ give their speech first, in order to gain ideas and critique these presentations, so that mine could be more effective. Through these forms of observations, I
“On the fringe” education has become increasingly more popular since the 1970’s while public education has been around since the 1600’s (Davis). “On the fringe” is what some parents think homeschooling is because they think schooling their children at home is “backwards” (Drenovsky and Cohen). However, homeschooling is more beneficial to students than public schooling.
Through the process of acquiring knowledge in this course, I have learned countless aspects about my own self. Amidst the very challenges I faced, the act of communication, management, and leadership, are among them. Being bilingual, my communication skills are on par yet at times hinder me from articulating my intention precisely as I have meant them. With every socialization I have made, I have striven to do better and to be better. I have learned that although you may consider yourself “fluent” in a foreign language, there are phrases or intonations to which come across as something entirely different from what you intended to say causing the message to be lost between the barrier of the two communicators.
Martin, J. N., & Nakayama, T. K. (2013). Intercultural Communication in Contexts (6th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Explain why effective communication is important in developing positive relationships with children, young people and adults
Communication skills are crucial not only in the learning process but also forging social interactions with others because language helps to express ideas and understand someone else ideas. Children with limited language abilities may have difficulties developing reasoning skills and acquire new concepts. Latino students need to develop strong literacy skills in their own language before they are introduce to a second language. Learning in their own lang...
Online communication host’s unique opportunities for education but the time lapses, absence of social, visual and auditory cues create a communication handicap. The diversity of community college provides unique opportunities for intercultural relationships as well as intercultural challenges hoping to meet different goals, and come from different backgrounds
Martin, Judith N., and Thomas K. Nakayama. Intercultural Communication in Contexts. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2013. Print.
There are many school-wide behavior expectations that will included in my future planning to establish a learning environment and decrease disruptions in the classroom. For this reason, I will teach social behavior to students during my lecture and provide opportunities so they can interact among each other. According to Flannery and Fenning (2014), teachers need to recognize and respond to the need to teach appropriate social behavior at the same time they are teaching the specific lesson (Flannery & Fenning, 2014). I chose these expectations mainly because it helps students meet their needs with a positive behavior and provide opportunities for students to develop social skills. Teachers need to provide opportunities for all students to practice and enhance their social skills (Banks & Obiakor, 2015). Another reason why I chose these expectations is because it enhances student’s positive behavior of culturally and linguistically diverse students. For instance, different resources will be assigned to students where they will be able to practice their skills and change their attitude to become better citizens. For this reason, schools must begin focusing on providing students the skills, attitudes, and knowledge they will need to be successful in the pluralistic and interdependent world in which students will live and work as adults (Diaz-Rico, 2014). Providing meaningful
The opportunity for universal application of the Communication Accommodation Theory gives the field of Communication Studies a method of objectively analyzing conversational strategies and motivations both of which are considered to be overwhelmingly subjective. The ways in which communicators of different cultures perceive one and other [as individuals or members of a group] varies greatly even in a two-person interaction. The number of cultural identifications one certain individual might possess may be numerous, and already makes structured analysis of their communication choices in an interaction difficult. By guiding the process of conducting research with CAT, researchers are able to analyze the communication behaviors of any set of cultural communicat...
is an essential tool in social life that includes process of passing on and receiving information (Kinge, 2012). Many past studies have tried to distinguish communication with culture, politic, history, and economic studies. Researchers from US began studying communication as social science, while Asian use communication to express their direct experience (Littlejohn and Foss, 2008).
With an increase in globalization, many people venture into other countries to seek employment and education opportunities. The United States-based corporations employ over 100 million overseas workers. They also hire a large number of locals who then move to take roles in other countries where the company has operations (Reichard et al. 2015). This means that Americans are exposed to a high number of people from other nations with diverse cultures in their workplaces, schools, neighborhoods and other social places. Therefore, people need to improve their intercultural communication skills to enable them to interact efficiently with people with diverse cultures. The improvement of technology has made the media an agent for enhanced
In the past, homeschooling was popular in many parts of the world, especially in the United States. Home-based learning is considered as a legal option for parents in many developed countries. In the United States, there are more than 1 million homeschoolers (Lines, 2000 74-85). Homeschooling is a form of home-based education taught at home by parents or tutors in a curriculum mapped out suitable for every child’s ability. Although this model still remains unknown in most developing countries, many parents in Vietnam, recently, have paid more attention to this teaching methods because they think that children might receive a better education than public school counterparts. Some people think that home-schooled children may difficult to integrate
Therefore, it is essential to study nonverbal and verbal communication Nonverbal communication is all forms of communication other than words themselves, which includes “body motions; vocal qualities; and the use of time, space, and even smell” (Neuliep, 2011, p. 269). On the other hand verbal communication or language “consists of symbols in the form of spoken or written words (Wood, 2014, p. 67). Thus cultures have different representations of symbols and what one culture interprets another may define or view differently. Communication is closely related to culture because communication expresses and alters culture. In a culture you learn behaviors and acceptable ideologies. This can be seen in verbal and nonverbal communication. For example, the tone of your voice is based on culture. Without communication you are unable to establish cultural differences. Your own culture directly shapes how one communicates, such as when it is appropriate to make eye contact. We are not born knowing when and how we should speak; this is a learned behavior that is taught by interaction with others. This is not an easy task because nonverbal signals differ from culture to culture. Charles Braithwaite stated, “One of the fundamental components of cultural and linguistic competence is knowing how and when to use silence as a communication tactic” (Neuliep, 2011, p. 64). Before one can communicate effectively one must understand the context in which the culture exchanges information. One must have a working awareness of how each society conveys meaning, hence high vs. low context cultures. According to the Central Michigan University text, organizational dynamics and human behavior (2009), to become a successful international manager one must develop “cross-cultural skills”. One part of the skill set involves the comprehension of the difference between high-context and low-context
I wasn 't quite sure what I was getting into when I first enrolled in Intercultural Communications. I had assumptions as to the goals of the course such as I would be learning about the way cultures interact with each other, learn about communication in general, or I would be learning about the ways we use communication through our culture. I think that I achieve the latter goal, but I also gained knowledge about more then just my culture. I came to realize that there is more to a culture than just language, appearances, and customs, which are aspects of culture that could be seen above the waterline, or they are more noticeable/obvious to someone outside of that culture. There are aspects of culture that are below the waterline, or more
Interaction is a significant part of our daily lives. Oral communication with others is inevitable, and therefore it is crucial for us to acquire the skills to do so correctly. Aside from simply stating words or expressing ideas, oral communication serves various purposes. Oral communication allows an individual to express emotions, ideas, and feelings; it gives people the ability to empower, inspire, and motivate those who listen; and it allows people to share knowledge and traditions, as well as build their self-esteem. Oral communication is also useful in leading us to new discoveries, ideas, cultures, and perspectives (O’Neill). Thus, oral communication serves several different purposes in daily life; yet each of these purposes are connected to an even larger purpose. According to the textbook Communication: Making Connections, “Effective communication is critical to living successfully in today’s soc...