COMMUNICATION PROCESS SUMMARY (GROUP 2) ENGLISH 5 – EA

The communication process involves elements such as source, message, encoding,

channel, decoding, receiver, feedback, context, and barrier.

To start off, we have the source. The source is the speaker/sender of the message. The

message is the information from the source, or the translation of the speaker’s thoughts

into transferrable information. The message then proceeds to encoding, channel,

decoding, and then to the receiver. Encoding is the process of transferring the

message, while the channel is the means to deliver the messages such as face-to-face

conversations, telephone calls, e-mails, and etc. After that, the message then finds its

way to the decoding phase. This is the phase where the message would undergo

interpretation, which means that the message arrived at the receiver. Responses are

commonly made after the message has reached the receiver and has gone through the

process of interpretation. The responses are often called the “feedbacks”. This is a

simplified explanation of what happens in our communication process.

There is, however, a concept that we have to keep in mind. It is vital to every kind of

communication, and its misinterpretation is, more often than not, the source of

communication failures. That concept is the context. The context is the situation or

environment in which communication takes place. For effective communication to

happen, the speaker and the receiver must be on the same page in terms of context.

In communication, there may be barriers that may affect the communication process. It

may be regarding culture, individual differences, language use, noise, past experiences

and status. Communication can be a one-way or two-way process. Communication as a

one-way process is best illustrated in the model of Shannon-Weaver (1949). In this

model, the sender is active while the receiver is passive during the communication

process.
Communication as a two-way process is exemplified by a transaction model. In this

model, the messages information, or ideas are sent and received at the same time.

Hence, the sender and the receiver become active during the process, and both serve

as communicators.

These are only two of the various existing models of communication (Aristotle’s Model,

Schramm’s Model, and etc). Our main concern is the process of the communication

itself, some of its elements, and where the source of communication failure may be. we

focused on giving the class a general perspective of the communication process.