ORAL COMMUNICATION

What I Know

Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a separate sheet of paper.
1. It is an act of transferring information from one person, place, or group to another is called
a. emotion
b. communication
c. recitation
d. delivery
2. These two authors and researchers define communication as the concept of noise
a. Aristotle and Claude Shannon
b. Aristotle and Eugene White
c. Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver
d. Warren Weaver and Eugene White
3. 3. His research was considered as the first and earliest model of communication
a. Claude Shannon
b. Aristotle
c. Warren Weaver
d. Wilbur Schramm

4. The Message is sent if there is _______ from the listener.

a. response
b. feedback
c. channels
d. noise
5. It is everything that makes a person unique
a. field of experience
b. field of expertise
c. field of knowledge
d. field of science
6. Which among the models of communication states that it is circular and continuous,
without a beginning or end?
a. Warren Weaver
b. Aristotle
c. Wilbur Schramm
d. Eugene White
7. Considered the Father of Mass Communication
a. Aristotle
b. Wilbur Schramm
c. Eugene White
d. Claude Shannon

8. It is an element of communication wherein the person begins the communication

interaction
a. response
b. speaker
c. message
d. feedback

9. It is called the central to all communication

a. sending of message
b. sending of feedback
c. sending of results
d. through channels

10. The barrier in communication process

a. noise
b. distraction
c. listener
d. speaker
11. It receives the message from the speaker
a. feedback
b. channels
c. listener
d. response

12. The result of monitoring by the speaker of the listener’s response

a. feedback
b. channels
c. response
d. noise

13. The model of communication introduced by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver is
called “Telephone Model” because
a. it is based on the experience of having the message interfered with noise
b. it is based on the experience of not having the message interfered with noise
c. it is based on the experience of both having the interference of noise
d. all of the above.
13. The model of communication introduced by Claude Shannon and Warren
Weaver is called “Telephone Model” because
a. it is based on the experience of having the message interfered with noise
b. it is based on the experience of not having the message interfered with noise
c. it is based on the experience of both having the interference of noise
d. all of the above.

14. Wilbur Schramm in his model of communication asserts that

a. communication can take place if and only there is an overlap between the field of
experience of the speaker and the field of experience of the listener
b. communication can occur if there is no overlapping of the field of experience of the
speaker and the listener
c. communication can take place if and only there is an overlap between the speaker’s field of
experience and the message
d. communication can take place if there is no overlap in the speaker’s field of experience
and the message.
15. How does the speaker know that the message has been received?
a. if there is a response from the receiver based on the interpretation of the message
b. if there is no response from the receiver
c. if the response is not heard
d. all of the above.

LESSON 1. THE NATURE OF COMMUNICATION

This lesson will help us better understand the nature of the communication process. Human
society cannot function without communication. It is a medium of which one expresses his
or her feelings towards others intentionally or unintentionally. It is the process of
transmitting information from the source (speaker) to the receiver (listener) of the message.
It is a way of conveying an action and receives feedback.

ACT. 1 WHAT AM I?

What are these tools?

How are these communication tools used?
What tool may it be if you choose from among the tools that can deliver communication
effectively? Why?
What will happen if communication does not exist? Why?
Activity 2. Picture talk

Do you think they understand each other? Why? Why not?

Communication Defined
We cannot think of a society without the use of communication. It comes (from the
Latin term “communis,” which means to share and inform ideas and feelings. It is the
act of transmitting intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of
mutually understood signs and semiotic rules. It also helps facilitate the process of
sharing information and knowledge and develops relationships with others.

Explaining the Models of Communication

Models of communication are conceptual models used to describe the communication
process. Traditionally, there were three models of communication of which some of the
authors and researchers belong to each of these models.
• Linear Model - Aristotle Model
• Transaction Model - Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver
• Interactive Model - Wilbur Schramm

Introducing the Models of Communication

1. Aristotle Model
A speaker centered model as the speaker has the most important role in it and is the only
one active. It mainly focused on the speaker, speech(message), and audience.

SPEAKER MESSAGE LISTENER

2. Wilbur Schramm Model Schramm
is considered the Father of Communication. He was the first individual o identify
himself as a communication scholar. In his model, he explained that communication is a
two-way circular between the sender and the receiver. It emphasizes on encoding and
decoding of messages
3. Eugene White Model White’s Model of communication tells that it is circular and
continuous, without a beginning or an end. He contributed the concept of feedback to the
field of communication. Feedback is the perception by the speaker about the response of the
listener.
4. Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver Model The Shannon-Weaver model has been called
the “mother of all models.” Social Scientists use the term to refer to an integrated model of
the concepts of the information source, message, transmitter, signal, channel, noise,
receiver, information destination, probability of error, encoding, decoding, information
rate, and channel capacity. The model’s primary value is in explaining how messages are
lost and distorted in the communication process. This model is often called Telephone
Model because it is based on the experience of having the message interfered with by
“noise” from the telephone switchboard back in 1940

The Process of Communication

The communication process is the basis for realizing the effectiveness of
communication where the sharing of a common meaning occurs between the sender
and the receiver. Effective communication leads to understanding. There are also factors
present in the communication process and these are in the form of the sender and the
receiver. It consists of key components such as encoding, the medium of transmission,
decoding, and feedback.
Introducing the Elements of communication
Communication comes about when the Message is imparted as information. To understand
the process of communication, it is break down into seven essential elements.
1. The Speaker is an important element of communication being the source of delivering the
information in a verbal or non-verbal way.
2. The Message is what needs to be delivered by the speaker. It is central to the process
because it is the point of saying something based on why, what, and how the speaker
wants to say.
3. The Listener is the one who receives the message. The feedback depends on how the
listener reacts to the message sent. It has been said that no matter how great the speaker is
and good the Message, if there is no listener or are not listening, then communication
fails.
4. Channel is the way in which a message is sent through our senses.
5. The Response is the only way the Speaker knows that the message has been received
based on how it is interpreted by the receiver whether it is positive or negative.
6. Feedback is the result of monitoring the listener’s response. The positive or negative
response depends on how the listener effectively interpreted the message. Speaker will
make sure of the feedback in continuing his or her message.
7. Noise is any barrier or interference to communication.