Language and Oral

Communication
What is the importance of Communication ?

 Oneof the essential activities of the

human race, it is transmission of
thoughts from one mind to others.
 Communication is an essential function
of civilization..
 What is language?
Language is the man’s most effective
medium of communication. It allows
people to communicate their ideas – to
say or write things to each other and
express their communicative needs.
 What is Oral Communication?

Oral Communication is the sound

representation of a language, and it consists of
the speaking and listening processes.
• Junctures (voice quality, pitch, intonation
and stress)

• Body language where feelings are

expressed through facial expression,
gestures and bodily movements.
 Hisfeelings, emotions, experience and
interests give meaning to your words and
actions.
 Communication, which is a two-way
process, ocurs in an orderly and systematic
sequence that involves giving and receiving
ideas, feelings, and attitudes between two or
more persons and it results in a response.
The Process of Oral
Communication
The Oral Communication Process
The act of transmitting messages between a
speaker and a listerner in order to understood:

Stage 1. The process starts with a

stimulus in the form of an occurrence such
as an idea, a startling news, a
disagreeable remark or a positive
comment that activates the sensory
processes of a person.
Stage 2. The stimulus is transmitted by nerve
fibers to the brain which in turn recognizes the
event. Its perception is affected by the
sender’s experince, environment, or culture.
The sender’s brain identifies the event and
evaluates it on the merit of the stimulus.
Stage 3. His thoughts are being encoded into
language symbols or words must be in the same
language that the listener knows and understands.

Stage 4. Now the speaker is ready to say his

thoughts aloud in the language and the
symbols he has chosen.
 The sender may use his voice, touch,
physical presense, bodily movement, facial
expressions, gestures and other available
means as a channel transmission.
Stage 5. Speech sounds are uttered in
proper sequences to transmit the message.
Pressure waves are created in the air and at
the same time properly coordinated muscles
tighten or relax, causing the hand to move in
meaningful gestures.
Stage 6. The sounds containing the
message are heard and the gestures that
accompany them are seen by the receiver.
He senses what is happening because his
visual and auditory nerves are actived by
the sound (voice) and light stimuli
(gestures).
Stage 7. The receiver now decodes from sound
to language and encodes from thought to
words. He chooses a language which the
sender will understand and utters his response.

Stage 8. The response is now the carried by

wave lengths to the first speaker, the original
source of the message.
Stage 9. The sounds and subsequently the
language and message are heard. The
listener now evaluates them and reacts
using the same channel in the same manner
of exchange.
The Oral Communication Process
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