Charpter 1

So after the first day of class, the second day was the first lecture. I already learned that communication is the process of conveying message by sending and receiving, but i don't know is "human communication". So human communication is actually focus on understanding how people communicate in different ways . For example spoken words, body language, facial language, emotions and many more. I found out that communication skills is needed for many things. Asking for direction, interviewing for a job, and even meeting your lover, all of these requires communication skills.

I know that interpersonal communication require more than 2 or more people, but after this class today, i only know that Intrapersonal communication is actually talking with yourself. For example learn and evaluate yourself or making decision.

After that, we learned about communication models. There are many types of communication models in the world. But that day we only learn 2 of the most used communication models that are linear model communication and interaction view of communication.

Linear communication model is one of the most used communication models. It is a one way communication and has no possible way for a feedback. Mass communication, listening to a speech, reading news paper are examples of linear communication.

Interactional view of communication is that each of us is a sender and also receiver. The individual sends the messages and also receives the messages as a feedback.

Furthermore, one of the subtopics that caught my eyes is the component of human communication. It is very interesting to find out how people communicate, how the communication process works.  Basically there are 6 component in human communication.

Source receiver  =>  Message => Feedback and feedforward message => Channel => Noise => Effect




Another very interesting word I learned was feedforward. I only know feedback so far. The meaning of feedforward is somehow another way of response, it's like a pretext to the context .

Next we have the purpose of human communication.

1. To help

2. To discover

3. To relate

4. To persuade

5. To play

Last but not least, we had a little activity in class before it ends. So we was divided into groups by row. We have to find out how a group of deaf and mute, and a group of blind people communicate with each other. All of a sudden, the lecture had chosen me and on of my friend to demonstrate to the class. The idea we used was very simple. My friend is deaf and I am blind. So she wrote "I love you" to the google translate and press the translate button with sound so I can hear.