Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational Modes of Communication
Instructions
Exploring Culture
In English, give a brief description of products and practices that helped you gain understanding of cultural perspectives. Remember not to make value judgments or comparisons of better/worse or right/wrong. Different is just different. You are talking about your growth of understanding.
Then, in a short paragraph write your reflection. Some questions that may help you process your reflections are: In what way did these products and practices help you better understand values and attitudes in the Hispanic culture as well as your own? How did these products and practices challenge your worldview? What challenges did these perspectives reveal to you? How did it cause you to work through a stereotype or misconception you had and cause you to view the world from a different perspective? Use specific examples.
Engaging in Communities
Engaging in communities to me is interacting with my classmates and collaborating on assignments together.
Interpersonal Communication
At first, TalkAbroad was very scary for me. I learned that I shouldn’t strive to be perfect and that talking to someone who is already fluent is a big help. It helped to have a topic to talk about that my partner and I were both interested in as well!
Presentational Speaking
I do not like presentational speaking in the slightest. It is always nerve-wracking for me to speak in front of people, especially when you are speaking in a different language that you aren’t fluent in.
What I would do differently for the next presentation is to focus on pronunciation and intonation.
Presentational Writing
Writing in a different language can be hard if you don’t like writing. However, I enjoy writing assignments because they give me the opportunity to practice my fluency in Spanish.
Interpretive Listening
This semester I completed several interpretive listening activities. With these activities, I learned how to listen for certain phrases/key words that could help me understand the meaning of the entire dialogue.
Interpretive Reading
For me, reading assignments were easier than spoken assignments. With reading assignments I was able to understand and make inferences with stories, short stories, etc.
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