ELEMENTS OF

COMMUNICATION
1. Sender or Speaker
The source of information
or message, delivers
message to the receiver.
2. Message
The information, ideas or
thoughts conveyed by the
speaker in words or actions.
3. Encoding
the process of converting
the message into words,
actions or other forms that
the speaker understands.
4. Channel
this serves as the vehicle
used in transmitting
messages or ideas. it can be
personal or non-personal,
written, verbal (words) or
nonverbal (actions,
gestures, facial expression),
in which the encoded
message is conveyed.
5. Decoding
The process of interpreting
the encoded message.
6. Receiver
The recipient of the
message, or the one who
received the message.
7. Feedback
The reactions, responses,
or information provided by
the receiver.
8. Context
The environment where
communication takes place.
9. Barrier
the factor that affects the
flow of communication.
PROCESS OF
COMMUNICATION
● Communication is a
process that begins with the
sending of message from a
source to a destination who
gives a feedback or a reply.
● This process is continuous
because the moment the
feedback is sent to the
original source, the persons
involved in the
communication situation
constantly exchange roles
thereby starting the entire
process all over again.
● In the process of
communication, NOISE is
unavoidable. In fact, noise is
always present in every
communication situation.
DIFFERENT FORMS OF
NOISE
• Physical noise refers to
the common sounds that
distract the communication
situation.
○ honking of cars along
the streets
○ the buzzing of the
electric fan
○ the loud voices of
people in your surroundings
• Physiological noise stems
from the body and may
tend to distract the people
involved to properly
perform the encoding and
the decoding processes in
communication since they
are not feeling well.
○ body aches ○ sickness
●Psychological noise can
come in the form of
worries, problems, and
anxieties.
• Semantic noise comes
from the language used in
the communication process.
If a language used in
communication is not
familiar to the either of the
people involved in the
process, the communication
may likely fail.