COMMUNICATION STUDIES PAPER 01/A

1HOUR & 15 MINUTES

This paper consists of 45 questions.

MODULE 1- GATHERING AND PROCESSING OF INFORMATION

● Do some reading on:

Defining key concepts (authority, reliability, validity, bias, fact, opinion):

Reliability and Validity (Know the types of Validity)

Sourcing information locating primary and secondary sources;

(i) choosing from among sources;

(ii) determining the appropriateness of data collection methods;

(iii) evaluating the reliability and validity of sources:

MODULE 2: LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITY

● Research these terms:

Language death,

Language fossilization

Language suicide

Language murder

Revise the following Topics:

1. Characteristics of language - Language as:

(i) human;

(ii) verbal;

(iii) symbolic;

(iv) systematic (non-arbitrary);

(v) maturational;
(vi) non-instinctive (naturally acquired);

(vii) dynamic

2. Language Variations

3. Language Attitudes

4. Language Registers

5. Some Salient Characteristics of English Creole languages

MODULE 3: SPEAKING AND WRITING

Research the following terms:

a) Appreciative listening
b) critical listening
c) Empathic listening

Revise the following topics:

1. Forms of Communication
(a) Verbal (speech, writing).
(b) Non-verbal:
(i) body language (for example, gestures, posture, facial expression);
(ii) use of space;
(iii) use of objects;
(iv) dress;
(v) graphics (charts, tables, diagrams);
(vi) integrating forms for specific purposes and situations (practice cases, role play and
simulation).

2. Contexts of Communication
(a) Intrapersonal (for example, thinking, solving problems, imagining).
(b) Interpersonal (for example, interviews, conversations, intimate communication).
(c) Small group (for example, leadership meetings, role-taking, goal setting).
(d) Organisational (for example, business, government, educational purposes).
(e) Academic (for example, essay, research paper).
(f) Public (for example, speeches, debates).
(g) Intercultural (for example, communicating across social sub-groups, in tour guiding).

3. Organising Skills (oral and written)

(a) Introductions and conclusions.

(b) Focus and emphasis (that is, defining scope; streamlining; placing and keeping central ideas
in the foreground; and highlighting).

(c) Logical linkages (linkages within and between paragraphs [for example, the use of
transitional words such as ‘although’, ‘therefore’, and ‘however’; and variation of sentence
structure to achieve coherence]).

(d) Formatting (selecting and using particular styles of arrangement correctly, for example,
appropriate headings and sequences of headings for a short informal report).

(e) Revising and editing drafts (via conferencing, peer-evaluation, self-evaluation).