MAROU REMPILLO 11 HUMSS BLOCK 2

LESSON 2 FUNCTIONS, NATURE AND PROCESS OF

COMMUNICATION

What I need to Know?

As a student, you surely wonder why different people have different means of communication. In
this lesson, you will be able to identify the nature of communication, its processes, and its function.

What I Know?

Activity: Complete the sentences in the box by writing your own idea on the Nature, Processes, and
Functions of Communication.

Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place, person or group
to another. Every communication involves at least one sender, a message and a recipient

Communication functions as an organization are to inform, persuade, and motivate. Informing

provides data and information to employees so that they can make educated decisions.

The communication process is refers to a series of actions or steps taken in order to

successfully communicate. It involves several components such as the sender of the communication,
the actual message being sent, the encoding of the message, the receiver and the decoding of the
message.

What’s In

Knowing the basics of communication will equip you with a strong foundation, which you can
use to hone your communication skills effectively. Hence, it is imperative for you to familiarize with the
fundamental elements of communication. As stressed by McCornack(2014), communication is a process
of sharing and conveying messages or information from one person to another within and across
channels, contexts, media, and cultures .

What’s New

Five Functions of Communication:

1. Control – Communication functions to control behavior.
2. Social Interaction – Communication allows individuals to interact with others.
3. Motivation – Communication motivates or encourages people to live better.
4. Emotional expression – Communication facilitates people’s expression of their feelings and emotions.
5. Information dissemination – Communication functions to convey information.
 Nature of Communication:
1. Communication is a process.
2. Communication occurs between two or more people (the speaker and the receiver).
3. Communication can be expressed through written or spoken words, actions (nonverbal), or both spoken
words and nonverbal actions at the same time.

Process of Communication
The communication process consists of several components:
A sender is the party that sends a message.
A channel of communication must also be selected, which is the manner in which the message is sent.
Channels of communication include speaking, writing, video transmission, audio transmission, electronic
transmission through emails, text messages and faxes and even nonverbal communication, such as body
language.
The party that is considered the target of communication is called the receiver.
The receiver must be able to decode the message, which means mentally processing the message into
understanding. If you can't decode, the message fails.
Sometimes, a receiver will give the sender feedback, which is a message sent by the receiver back to the
sender.

What is It

TASK: Identify the function of communication in each of the following situations. Write your
answers on the space provided.
CONTROL 1. The teacher reads and discusses classroom policies to her students.
SOCIAL INTERACTION 2. Ross greets Rachel; then, they start talking about their plans for
the holidays.
MOTIVATION 3. Phoebe shares her insights on how to live peacefully despite a complicated
life.
EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION 4. Monica shares her personal frustrations with Chandler.
EMOTIONAL DISSEMINATION 5. The geometry teacher lectures about mathematical
concepts.
MOTIVATION 6. Sheila delivers her valedictory speech.
EMOTIONAL DISSEMINATION 7. The President delivers his last State of the Nation
Address.
EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION 8. A television personality thanks the supportive moviegoers
during an interview.
EMOTIONAL DISSEMINATION 9. The city mayor presents her strategies to execute the
plans in a public forum.
EMOTIONAL DISSEMINATION 10. A tourist guide orients a group of tourists about a
heritage site

What’s More

Directions: Fill-in the box in the diagram with the appropriate word/term that traces the process of
communication.

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 What I Have Learned

Directions: Complete the sentences in the box using your own words

There is communication if they have a process and occurs between two or more people.

Communication can serve as a way to interact, express emotions, send or receive a message to
each other.

Basically, communication can be described as conveying of messages by exchanging thoughts

or Information via speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior.

What I Can Do

TASK: Write “Dialogue Journals” in relation to the process of communication. Start this off by writing
a first short entry of your opinion on Advantages and Disadvantages on New Normal Learning (the
Modular modality of Learning)

As a student the advantages of this new normal learning or the modular modality of learning is we can
balance our time to answer all the modules that the teacher’s given. We can concentrate to our
studies and can search it on google to know more about the information of a lesson that we didn’t
get. When it comes to the disadvantages on new normal learning or the modular modality of learning
is we will need to study all by ourselves. We can’t communicate by face to face. The other students
didn’t have any gadgets to attend online schooling and it can affect their studies because all of us are
lack of money or budget.

Things to do: A journal in which a teacher and student write back and forth to each other as a form of an
ongoing communication-- to build better relationship with each student. Use the rubrics below as your
guide.
Notes to the Teacher
Make sure that the student can come up with the dialogue-journal. Base
your scoring on the given rubrics below.
Answer to “What’s More Activity:

1.Sender 2. Channel 3. Receiver 4. Decode 5. feedback