PAPER - SONALI FINAL (Elixr) PDF
PAPER - SONALI FINAL (Elixr) PDF
PAPER - SONALI FINAL (Elixr) PDF
Ms Deepti Rawat
Research Scholar Shobhit University Meerut
Abstract
The success of the teaching-learning process depends on the teacher’s knowledge and the teacher’s
ability to transfer the same to the students. Communication plays a vital role in the transfer of
knowledge to take place. Furthermore, the process is facilitated by the verbal communication that not
only helps in the sharing of the knowledge but also creates an amicable environment to facilitate the
sharing of ideas/opinions/feelings between the teacher and the students. In this regard, the paper
explores the role of communication in education with the special focus on the verbal communication.
Keywords: Communication, Teaching Learning Processes
Introduction
Teaching is a very noble profession that aims at inculcating knowledge, tradition, values etc.
in the child. It is where a more mature personality guides a less mature ones especially on the
areas related to the cognitive side of the mind. According to Gage,
"Teaching is a form of interpersonal influence aimed at changing the behaviour potential of
another person."
Teaching is essentially a social activity which has a significant impact not only on the
learning of the child but also on his/her overall personality. The teacher is now being
designated as a facilitator who facilitates in the teaching learning process of a child in all the
possible ways. He is regarded as the friend, philosopher and a guide to the students who helps
the child in the process of cognitive development.
Communication plays a vital role in all spheres of life. Being an essence of any and every
society, it helps the people to share and understand the meanings. Communication has been
derived from the word ‘communice’ which means ‘to share or to make common’. It plays a
vital role in creating understandings and establishing relationships. Being the most important
social tool, communication has the power of alteration, negotiation as well as the power to
leave a long lasting impact on one’s mind. Thus, it needs to be handled carefully to avoid
several confusions and controversies.
Communication though has a major role in all walks of life; it has a further more significant
place in the teaching learning processes. Research has shown that the teaching comprises of
mainly two components viz. the knowledge of the teacher and his mastery over the
communication skills for the transfer of the knowledge. The either one without the other
defeats the meaning as well as the purpose with which it was introduced. A teacher may be
very knowledgeable, but this knowledge will not serve the purpose unless it is transferred in a
manner it is intended to.
On the basis of the medium, communication had been divided into two parts viz. Verbal
communication and the non verbal communication. . Verbal communication involves the use
of the language whereas the non verbal communication is essentially based on the use of
expressions, gestures, actions etc. Both the forms of the communication are extremely
important for complete transfer/understanding of the content yet when it comes to the
teaching learning processes, verbal communication plays a much more vital role in the
transfer of the knowledge.
Defining Communication
What is ‘communication’? According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary the word means ‘the
act of imparting, especially news’, or ‘the science and practice of transmitting information’.
Communication has been defined as
“The process of transmitting information and common understanding from one person to
another”
(Keyton, 2011).
Thus communication may be understood as a way of transferring thoughts, ideas, opinions
and knowledge from the sender to the receiver. According to Hybels and Weaver (1995), the
communication process is made up of various elements: sender-receiver, messages, channels,
noise, feedback, and setting. Shannon and Weaver (1963) diagrammed communication and
identified the process as involving an information source, a message, transmission or
encoding of the message, a signal, a channel, a receiver or decoder of the message, a
destination, and noise.
Communication has been discussed as a two way process where the information is transferred
across from the sender to the receiver wide a proper medium. The choice of the medium
depends on the choice of the sender. The sender selects the medium, and sends the message
across the receiver, who in turn decodes the information received, understands it and sends a
suitable reply or feedback back to the sender. Communication is thus the process of sharing
our ideas, thoughts, and feelings with other people. The process of communication may be
seen in the diagram given below.
also include the lack of the ability of the teacher to transmit the information across to the
learners owing to the poor knowledge and lack of communication skills. Research studies
have shown that the students may drop out from the schools due to lack of interest in the
studies that as researched upon may be inculcated by the teachers with good knowledge and
sound communication skills. Thus communication skills need to be focussed upon in the pre
service and the in-service training programme to reduce student drop out in the country.
Conclusion
Communication skills play a crucial role in the teaching learning process. The
communication skills of the teachers need to be reinforced in the teacher training
programmes for facilitating the fluent transmission of the knowledge. Verbal communication
needs to be stressed further more to make teaching learning process more interactive,
empathetic and fun filled.
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