Communication Studies Syllabus- Caribbean Students

Language is the foundation for all academic and social skills and the basis for strong relationships with children

Communication is a two-way process that takes practice and time to be fully effective and is very important in every aspect our personal and professional lives. We communicate every day of our lives both verbally or nonverbally. The process of verbal communication is the exchanging information by transmitting an idea, send that idea, receive feedback, understand the idea and the feedback and provide feedback to the person who sent the message. The main components of communication are context, encoder, message, medium, decoder, and feedback. The context could be social, chronological, cultural, or physical. The individual sending the message will

Writing the teaching objectives and the learning outcomes, what the pupils will be able to do at the end of the lesson.

2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 4.1 4.2 4.3 Demonstrate how to establish the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals Describe the factors to consider when promoting effective communication Demonstrate a range of communication methods and styles to meet individual needs Demonstrate how to respond to an individual’s reactions when communicating explain how people from different backgrounds may use and/or interpret communication methods in

Language is a very import part in our life, we carry it with us through all the steps, processes, moments experiences of our life, language built us and make us grow and the most important thing is that it grows with us, changes, modifies itself, and becomes more appropriate and specific. As we pointed out language help us to create and understand the world around us, gives meaning to everything and gives birth to emotions and feelings; a world without language would be meaningless and very lonely. Language it’s what help us grow up, the more we learn through it, the more we desire to experience and study in deep, leading us to new prospective, opening our mind to more specific and deep concepts, ideas, projects, goals. We really can’t

Communication is a two-way process that takes practice and time to be fully effective and is very important in every aspect our personal and professional lives. We communicate every day of our lives both verbally or nonverbally. The process of verbal communication is the exchanging information by transmitting an idea, send that idea, receive feedback, understand the idea and the feedback and provide feedback to the person who sent the message. The main components of communication are context, encoder, message, medium, decoder, and feedback. The context could be social, chronological, cultural, or physical. The individual sending the message will

The learning provisions for development in literacy are extremely important and can be reached by using their language skills. They learn to communicate with others through three main ways: they are Speaking, Reading and Writing. These three areas interact with each other and develop the Childs self-expression and imagination. They must be given the opportunity within all different subject areas to use and extend their language so that their thinking skills progress to a higher level.

made revisions to this edition and a number of the readings required for the course are not included in

Communication means consuming language in dissimilar methods; to query, simplify, define and discuss, using non-verbal rules of communication: listening, looking, and knowing how to take spoken goes and how to change language to ensemble the circumstances.

NOTE: All matters associated with this course are subject to change at the instructor's discretion. Any and all changes will be communicated to students in writing.

Please note that the instructor’s assignments may vary from the original syllabus you received from the student web page. Assignments in this document take priority. While the reading assignments and learning objectives remain the same, some of the assignments in this syllabus have been customized for this particular section.

COMG  151  Personal  and  Public  Speech  Spring  2013  Study  Guide  –  Midterm  Exam DATE:  Wednesday,  February  27  at  12:30pm  in  Bilger  152 *This  review  sheet  is  for  the  midterm.  The  ideas  listed  below  represent  issues  and  content  with which  you  should  be  familiar.  They  do  NOT  necessarily  represent  an  exhaustive  list  of  all material  subject  to  examination  but  should  give  you  direction  in  your  preparation  for  the  exam.* YOU  WILL  NEED  TO  BRING  A  NUMBER  2  PENCIL. Chapter  1  –  Communication  Perspectives 1. Why  is  communication  important? ● Communication  is  inescapable  and  we  spend  80%  -­  90%  of  our  waking  hours  communicating 2. What  are  the  communication  models

Students have enough opportunities to practice the target language, in pairs, individually and as a whole class. They practice the language in speaking and written form.

To begin with, the discussion of language is important for students to no longer be ignorant

The evolution of Caribbean Literature started centuries before the Europeans graced these shores and continues to develop today. Quite noticeably, it developed in a manner which transcended all language barriers and cultures. Today the languages of the Caribbean are rooted in that of the colonial powers - France, Britain, Spain and Holland - whose historical encounters are quite evident throughout the region. The cosmopolitan nature of the region's language and cultural diversity develop from the mixture of European languages with Native American languages (mainly the Caribs and Arawaks) in the formation of creoles and local patois (hybrid languages) and those of Africans brought to the Caribbean as