The behavior of nonverbal gestures at pauses in speech Studies that have examined bodily gesture reach a wide variety of conclusions as to the nature of gesture in relation to speech. Some hypothesize that the two occur in synchrony and are part of an integrated cognitive system ‚while others hypothesize that gesture is a paralinguistic phenomenon serving to aid speech production‚ and occurs more often when speech becomes difficult.These theories however are based on results from studies that
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Kramer Versus Kramer After watching the movie Kramer Versus Kramer‚ I will create a brief summary and cover several aspects of communication‚ including hearing versus listening‚ nonverbal communication‚ and relationships. A brief overview of the film Kramer Versus Kramer starts out by the main character Ted coming home late from work and his wife Joanna tells him that she is leaving him. She leaves Billy (their son) with Ted‚ and goes off on her own. Ted knows next to nothing about their son
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The Four Basic Styles of Communication Passive Aggressive Passive-Aggressive Assertive 1. PASSIVE COMMUNICATION is a style in which individuals have developed a pattern of avoiding expressing their opinions or feelings‚ protecting their rights‚ and identifying and meeting their needs. Passive communication is usually born of low self-esteem. These individuals believe: “I’m not worth taking care of.” As a result‚ passive individuals do not respond overtly to hurtful or anger-inducing
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skills 1 and 2. The skills that I reflect on include non verbal communication‚ development of rapport‚ active listening‚ paraphrasing and open ended questions. My use of non verbal communication was effective as I greeted my client with a positive hand shake and a smile to ensure security when entering the room. I feel I succeeded in my active listening skills as I demonstrated my listening through non verbal eye contact and nodding. I paraphrased my client’s statements effectively to demonstrate my
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MINDFUL LISTENING SKILL IN HIGH SCHOOL IN AMERICAN AND VIETNAM Mindful listening skill is an important characteristic that can solve some constructive intercultural conflict management. The question is ‘What should intercultural conflict parties do?’ In my opinion‚ there are “listen mindfully to each other” and “listen responsively”. Warrilow (2011) points out that “Mindful listening is when you are not thinking and you remain fully present whilst the other person is speaking”. It is
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Barriers to Good Listening To be an effective listener‚ you should improve your listening skills and abolish the barriers or hindrance to a good and clear listening. 1. Prejudging * Happens when you jump to the conclusion that you understand the speaker’s meaning before it is fully expressed. * This results in the wrong interpretation of the message and the false belief that you have listened effectively. * Another way to prejudge a speech is to decide that the topic has little
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51)‚ while the ‘Repeat Sentence’ item tests candidates’ ability “to understand and remember a sentence‚ then repeat the sentence exactly as you hear it using the correct pronunciation” (2010‚ p.41). Both of the item types assess speaking and listening skills in an integrated fashion. Research design The research question for this study is: can the new integrated skills test change candidates’ use of learning strategies and learning materials? Three classes of students from the School of English
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Unfamiliar topics sometimes bring about a problem in listening comprehension. The listening material may contain a variety of fields in life or society. For instance‚ it is likely a business report‚ a daily conversation or a political issue which confuse the listener. These conversations may include words‚ phrases or terms unfamiliar to listeners. They are totally strange to them so it is such a hard job to listen when the message is full of terminology. The solution is to ask the students to practice
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Dealing with Conflict 1.1  Potential conflict can arise when two parties or people have a disagreement on a particular subject. For example‚ a person may have said he was going to complete a task which he failed to do which caused conflict with another person or party‚ or maybe two people who have different ideas on who to accomplish a task may become heated.  Stages of conflict are hard to describe in detail but it usually starts with raised voices to get an opinion across
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Counseling Pairs Dialogue Paper I The client is a 24 year old Caucasian female who has suffered with drug abuse for 7 years. Being that she has been in several rehabilitation facilities and relapsed all those times‚ she was sent to me. I played the role of the counselor. I introduce myself‚ explain what I do and my area of expertise‚ and give the purpose of the session. The client explained to me that she has been in and out of rehab with little success. She wants to overcome her condition but
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