Week No.

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SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES OF
SOCIETY
Communication Skill Exercise. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

__C__ 1.)The communication process consists of three steps. In __________, the

receiver interprets the message and translate it into meaningful information.
a. encoding
b. feedback
c. decoding
d. noise
__D__ 2.) How close you place your body relative to another person’s conveys meaning
when you send a message. Social distance covers from about _________ to ________
feet.
a. 1.5; 4
b. 1; 2
c. 2; 6
d. 4; 12
__D__ 3.)Moving your head, face and eyes away from another person is often interpreted
as a lack of __________.
a. self-esteem
b. self-control
c. self-respect
d. self-confidence
__D__ 4.)Which of the following is the most annoying type of noise according to a study
by Jacobi?
a. weak and wimpy voice tone
b. high-pitched, squeaky voice tone
c. very fast talkers
d. whining, complaining or nagging tone
__D__ 5.)A person’s nonverbal behavior is often used to gauge whether he or she is
telling the truth. Which of the following facial clues reveals lying?
c. failure to look you in the eye
crooked smile
d. facial shift
e. all of the above
__C__ 6.)A major challenge in using e-mail effectively is to describe and when to
manage your e-mail.
a. how to compose
b. how to retrieve
c. how often
d. how to secure
__D__ 7.All of the following are suggested e-mail etiquette except:
a. Keep it simple.
b. Be considerate.
c. Avoid passing along chain letters.
d. Use spelling and grammar checkers.

Express in your own words your ideas on the following statements.

1. Mother Tongue Policy in the Philippines

Our own language is important to learn, first this is our own language. And it will
help to preserve our Filipino Language. Focusing in Filipino and Language would
also help the children to understand more of the context of lectures that are being
taught in school. Even that we know other language, we need to learn more to our
own language to preserve it.

2. Language Policy Laws

This law help us to preserve and to love our own language. We need to use our
own language in schools, which is the Filipino language, because this is part of our
law. Using Filipino language in teaching is very helpfull because we will improve
our skills and we will learn easily.

3. Language Choice in Multilingual Communities

Even we know more language like Korean, Japanese or other language. We need
to to choose our own language which is the Filipino Language. I am proud that I
used Filipino language because this is our own. Anda I'm happy because I know
Filipino language, and because of this I help to preserve our culture language.