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| Most people say that listening is a receptive language skill. In my listening class, students must be active to maximize the skill. |
Communication plays
important role to transfer ideas to knowledge. It is quite experienced in the
context of education. By considering the proximity, teacher and student manage
their communications so that the classroom environment performs.
Communication exists
to facilitate sender in delivering message for receiver. As the result, it is
hoped that the feedback happens then.
There are various
ways of communication happen. It is done by verbal and non-verbal ways. First,
verbal is done easily by uttering spoken language, while non-verbal one is done
with body language, gesture, attitude, and emotion. Do you remember when your
teacher gave you a chalk, showed it in front of you, directed your sight from
the chalk to the blackboard and said "Would you answer the question I've
written on the board, please?". The tone of teacher in asking you affected
your bravery to come forward and did the challenge, didn't it? Compare this
goal when the teacher used directly bare imperative. I bet you were afraid of
your answer (minimally shocked at the first time before doing what she asked).
The communication
performance is also influenced by culture. You will feel more comfortable to
follow your class in your home culture than other country. You need time to
adapt, don't you?
This is known as
intercultural communication. It studies communication by its participants with
different cultures. Intercultural communication involves the term named
"ritual". This term shows the participants to do certain activities
which have been internalized in their consciousness. It's such a habitual issue.
In the United States,
a student will raise his hand if he wants to express his curiosity to his
teacher, or there is a question which needs to answer. It is different in
Jamaica where you find students flap or snap their fingers to do such thing. In
several countries, students stand up when teacher enters the class. They are
the examples of intercultural communications across countries.
I taught this topic
for my lecture on the tenth meeting of critical listening. My students were
encountered to listen intercultural communication existing in the audio. This
meeting directed my students to identify intercultural communication. The
result was amazing. They were able to express this issue related to their daily
activities.
It is also important
to allow students convey their views why this happening exists among us. I did
it! Let them active on doing analysis.
Moreover, this lecture had reached critical level. They have been part of
society and affected their existences as functioning human being. Quoting from
the listened audio, they were directed to interpret more than just words.
This topic attracts
our knowledge that there are various ways of performing communication,
especially in the context of education, or classroom - where we transfer
knowledge and values, see their emotions, and appreciate their ideas.
