Culture can also affect communication in many ways. One person can be part of many different cultures. Beliefs and experiences within groups of diverse cultures will change the way a speaker must attempt to get points across to listeners. In each culture, words and action may all be interpreted differently. Miscommunications are something that nobody wants to experience during any type of communicating. A sender’s words cannot communicate the desired meaning if the receiver has not had some experience with the objects or concepts the words describe. This is what could happen if proper steps are not taken into consideration before speaking to diverse crowds.…
To facilitate communication between cultures, it is important to understand that different groups have different values, different ways of communicating, different customs and assumptions. So, while these may conflict with…
There are various factors that affect the communication process. Among many of the factors some are very important and play a very important role throughout society, cultural, ethical and individual ways of perspective and communication. Throughout life people have and/or will be faced with the challenge of playing out these roles in society. For example, there are different cultures around the world. In some culture women are to be covered up at all times and are married off to as trade for cattle or money to their father. Where in cultures women are free to dress and marry by there choice. These two women will experience culture shock while communicating with each other. Culture is the values, attitudes and morals, someone is thought that carry over into their social lives. By taken the time to make sure we as people can cultural communication it can keep down most of the confusing in workplace, school and just maybe the world.…
In a health and social care context (Day care nursery to be precise), a child can demonstrate challenging behaviour. When you correct that child by your Body language alone the child should be able to understand that his behaviour was inappropriate. Things like folding your arms and keeping eye contact show the child that you are serious and you mean business.…
Language is viewed as discourse to “make meaning in social and cultural contexts”. (Kumaracadivelu, 2006, P7) While the study of grammar which is included in this unit is an “integrated part of language learning”. (NSW Adult Migrant English Service, 2003-2004) Topics selected are closely related to students’ life need and learning outcomes focus on comprehending and writing English for real life use.…
This paper reviews some of the theories and research which fuel ‘the great grammar debate’ regarding first language acquisition and second language teaching and learning . It will analyse how these theories have influenced governement policies, school curricula and teaching approaches in the past decades and what is the place of grammar within the current teaching of the modern foreign language (MFL), to finally explain how these researches have been informing my own teaching practice.…
Intercultural communication and differences among cultures is something that I have been interested in since I began in my communications major. I had never been directly affected by intercultural boundaries until I began working at an after school program in Elk Grove. Many of the families that I work with are Vietnamese and it has been difficult for me to communicate with them due to our language/culture boundary. My lack of understanding and apprehension has made it so that I do not communicate with the parents at all but rather use the children (who speak English) to communicate with them. It is important to develop a relationship with the parents at my job and this particular cultural boundary had not allowed me to do so. I plan on studying this topic further in order to give myself an understanding of their culture and values so I am better able to communicate not only at work but in other aspects of my life. I find it fascinating how different the attitudes, beliefs and norms are among cultures and I believe that it is important to recognize these differences in order for any two cultures to get along. Although it is a challenge, there are steps that can be taken to improve the way we interact with cultures around the world and to help us to better understand how to successfully communicate with other cultures in different situations. In this paper I will focus on the Vietnamese culture and values in comparison with that of the United States. I will discuss their values/orientation and explain how these cultural values affect the way they communicate with one another.…
The academic community has long debated the need to teach grammar skills and its benefits to students. Unfortunately; college students are graduating every day without the simple basic knowledge of sentence structure, spelling or grammar (College Boad, The National Commission on Writing for America 's Families, Schools, and Colleges, 2004). Traditionally, two different approaches have been used. In the 60’s, a “rule-based”, approach which used repetitive drills and sentence diagramming was employed. This theory was proven ineffective by Weaver in 1996 (Weaver, 1996), and a “context-based”, theory was adopted,…
Within a school setting, I feel that one of the key ways to develop a strong and trusting relationship with the children in my care is to speak to them in an age appropriate way that shows them the correct grammar, pronunciation and tenses as well as tone. A Teacher…
comprehending the verbal and nonverbal meanings of a message is difficult even when communicators are from the same culture.…
Typically, some of the basic assumptions we make when communicating with people from our own culture must be questioned and modified when communicating with people of another culture. First on the list of items for review is verbal communication. Parts of verbal communication, such as, tonality, tense, gender generalities and structure vary greatly from culture to culture. A majority of these differences are based on core values and perceptions in different cultures; therefore, such differences must be acknowledged if effective communication and relationships are to occur.…
Verbal and nonverbal communication a like can be difficult within the same culture; add in a mix of cultures and the difficulty level is off the charts. Communication is extremely important and must be done properly for optimum success. `Cultural differences have the potential to breed significant misunderstandings…
Each countries has a separate culture, it is not the same that it forms a lot of factors. Therefore, misunderstanding in communication is the main reason which leads to contradictions among cultures. The communication is sometimes expressed by handwriting, speech or another form which has more meaning than things are said, write or expressed. Communication process is always different between this culture and the others. That is mode, moment and reason of one thing which is said, write or presented. All this create communication style of each person and misunderstanding also arise because the communication of each individual is different. So, learning how to communicate among cultures is essential no matter what you are working in any field or career .…
Rutherford, W. (1998). A Workbook in the Structure of English: Linguistic Principles and Language Acquisition. Blackwell Publishers.…
Improving Communication Between Home and School PARENT-TEACHER COMMUNICATION Parent-Teacher Conferences Notes regarding grades, behavior, activities and assignments Phone Calls E-mails Class Newsletter Ask parents to volunteer CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON COMMUNICATION …