Name: ______________________________________ Score: ___________

Course, Year, & Section: _______________________ Date: ___________

C omprehension CHECK
A. Identify the following concepts:

Communication and globalization 1. It refers to the “structural phenomenon of

increasing interdependence among various
parts of the world
Communication Competence 2. It is the ability to function in a truly communicative
setting.
Sociolinguistic competence 3. It is a component of communicative competence which
pertains to an understanding of the social context in which
communication takes place, including role relationships, the
shared information of the participants, and the communicative
purpose of their interaction.
Grammatical competence 4. It is the domain of grammatical and lexical capacity.
Strategic competence 5. It relates to the coping strategies that communicators employ to
initiate, terminate, maintain, repair, and redirect communication.
Discourse competence 6. It is the ability to interpret individual message elements in
terms of their interconnectedness and of how meaning is
represented in relationship to the entire discourse.
Global Mindset 7. This component of communication competence pertains to the
psychological process that represents patterns of an individual or
group thinking.
Unfolding the Self 8. It is the ability to look for shared communication symbols and
project the self into another person’s mind by thinking the same
thoughts and feelings and the same emotions as the person.
Mapping the Culture 9. It requires us to contrast cultural differences that may motivate
us to prefer alternative styles of cultural expressions and
engender in us a desire to retool so that we can better function
with the demands of global environment and cope with changing
environment rapidly.
Aligning the Interaction 10. It requires a set of behavioral skills which is indispensable
for adjusting individuals to the changes and new patterns of
interaction in the globalizing society.

B. Identify if the questions in column 2 are professional or unprofessional. Tick the

“Yes-No” column: “Yes” for professional questions and “No” for unprofessional or
 silly ones. This activity requires you to have a practical judgment about your
language in the workplace.

No. Questions Yes No

1 Would you like any help? 
2 Do you have any disabilities? 
3 Are you able to do your job? 
4 Could you do the job for me? 
5 Do you take drugs, smoke, or drink? 
6 Can you please show me some examples of projects 
that I’d be working on?
7 Do you do background checks? 
8 Who is your target customer? 
9 Have you ever been arrested? 
10 How can I best contribute to the department? 
11 Are you pregnant? 
12 Can I apply for other positions in the company? 
13 What are the dangers of my job? 
14 Will I receive job safety training? 
15 How soon can I expect for a promotion? 
16 Do you monitor emails and Internet usage? 
17 What’s my benefits package? 
18 Who do I ask if I have questions? 
19 I really want to nail the assignment. Do you have 
any templates I could reference, or is there anyone I
should speak to who’s done a good job on one
recently?
20 Do you have any concerns about me? 