Language, Culture, and Society Flashcards
This is to express your thoughts and ideas
Communication
You need ethical considerations when it comes to?
Communication
_______ in it’s widest sense means the total of signs of our thoughts and feelings as are capable interval.
Language
What are the 5 Macro Skills
- Listening
- Speaking
- Reading
- Writing
- Viewing
It is a prerequisite to understanding. It is the skill of grasping and decoding information during the exchange of messages.
Listening
It is a prerequisite to understanding. It is the skill of grasping and decoding information during the exchange of messages.
Listening
It is the beginning of understanding and a valuable key to effective communication. It is the task of getting the meaning of what is being heard (Underwood, 2009).
Listening
What are the 10 steps to effective listening
Dianne Schilling Step!
Step 1: Look at the speaker in the eye and face
Step 2: Focus and give attention but relax
Step 3: Be open-minded.
Step 4: Listen and picture what the speaker is saying.
Step 5: Don’t speak while the person is talking.
Step 6: When the speaker pauses, you may ask clarifying questions.
Step 7: Ask relevant questions.
Step 8: Put yourself in the speaker’s
place.
Step 9: Give feedback.
Step 10: Focus as well to nonverbal cue’s
Who created the 10 steps to effective listening ?
Dianne Schilling
It is the ability that makes us superior to other species. It is complex cognitive and linguistic skill that involves words and sounds.
Speaking
When we are speaking it involves
• Meaning: connotation, denotation, grammar Sociality, Relationship, Affect, formal, informal, slang, turn-taking
Cultural Issues: class, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, dialect Performance: articulation, projection, pronunciation
Sound Elements: how volume pitch, pace, and nature of sound
What is the function of speaking?
Interaction
Translation
Performance
It is seen in social conversations. For example, a student shares her weekend getaway experience to a friend, a taxi driver chats with his passenger, or a saleslady telling her manager about her recent experience, etc.
Interaction
It happens when someone wants to cut across a message There is an act to be done after the message is received.l
Transaction
It is when an audience accepts the message spoken.
Performance
This is a example of ?
Speeches conducted to persuade like oration or debate. There is an emphasis on the accuracy, the sequencing of ideas, the form and the organization.
Performance
This is a example of ?
A boy orders a box of pizza, a teacher gives instructions on the assignment of the lesson to her students, or book a plane ticket via phone call.
Transaction
It is a multifaceted process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Learn how readers integrate these facets to make meaning from print (Leipzig, 2001).
Reading
It is making meaning from print. It requires that we:
⚫ identify the words in print a process called word recognition;
construct an understanding from them a process called comprehension an
⚫ automatic and accurate an achievement called fluency
coordinate identifying words and making meaning so that reading is automatic and accurate- an achievement called fluency.
Reading
Brown (1989) suggested this categories:
A. Oral Reading
B. Silent Reading
- Intensive
a. linguistic
b. context
II. Extensive
a. skimming
b. scanning
c. global
Who suggested this?
A. Oral Reading
B. Silent Reading
- Intensive
a. linguistic
b. context
II. Extensive
a. skimming
b. scanning
c. global
Brown (1989)
Type of reading that is reading aloud. This can be a technique to improve poor readers word identification in context. By reading aloud, the person learns to correct and detect errors that the reader produced. It improves proper pronunciation
Oral reading
Under silent reading there are 2 types
Intensive
Extensive
This type of reading reading includes reading for pleasure or reading technical, scientific, or professional material. Under these are two specific types of reading: scanning for key details or skimming for the essential meaning
Extensive
Practicing specific reading strategies entail _______ reading.
Intensive
This type of reading is the means to an end.
Extensive
Another type of macro skill that entails control of language variables since it is an extremely complex cognitive activity Good writing skills may increase the chances of a person’s success. These are needed for all students to accomplish their educational and employable requirements
Writing
It is another macro skill which language teachers should master and teach students.
Writing
What are the Steps for Writing ?
Decide the topic
Researching and collecting information
Outline and plan
Start writing with a simple draft
Review, edit, and format
