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SSU 1053 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL INTERACTION (G01)

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SSU 1053 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL INTERACTION (G01)

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ERNISA JOHNIUS, (69621)

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Communication is a basic of life that every people used every day in their life to interact with others. Ever since we were young, we communicate subconsciously as if it is a natural habit of ours but little did, we know of the fundamental and types of communications we relay to others. But while going through the learning unit 1, I realized that there are many types that I use every day which is interpersonal communication, intrapersonal, mediated interpersonal communication and small group communication.

First, I usually used mediated interpersonal communication in my life. As student which currently doing an online class, we mostly using social media such as WhatsApp to communicate with others student and lecturer to get the information. This social media platform makes our life easier as we can communicate with our family and friends who far from us.

Second, I used interpersonal communication and small group communication. I usually used this communication with people in my house which is my family and friends. Third, I used intrapersonal communication to reflect about myself and motivate myself.

After going through this learning unit, I started to assess the way I communicate with others and find out if I was conveying the information in an appropriate manner. I realized that I am fast spoken person. I noticed that this was a bad habit of mine. It would made someone have an impression of impolite towards me. Normally when I having a conversation, I realized that I am fast spoken person which it will make my communication is not clear and this situation may lead to misunderstanding.

Furthermore, I realized that communication applies when we converse through social media such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and so on. Before this I don’t care about my spellings, grammar, and greetings while having a conversation through social media. Also from learning unit 1, I learned that improper communication could lead to consequences. For instance, if you don’t place proper punctuation in a sentences, it would have a whole different meaning which would lead to a misunderstanding. This is bad and having a proper way to conversing is advisable. Communication is really important to every people without communication how could we get the information and interact with people. By having an effective communication skills are an advantage to me to get ready for my future career and I realized how it is key to life. I realized how important an effective communication skills are an advantage to anybody.

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Identity is a person’s perception of self within a particular cultural, geographical, and so on. Identity is created, reflected, and maintain through interactions among people. Everyone has their own identity and has many characteristics such as multiple identity, social and personal, salience and strength, passing and outing, performance, and expression. That’s learning unit 2 tells me about the identity and perception.

When we talk about identity, I realized that when  I was younger, I did not really know who am I. As I grew up, I had gone to school and now I pursuing my study at university and I meet many of people which some of them are confident person and some are shy person. I started to wonder how do they be that confidence with themselves. I realized that since high school, I was lack of confidence.

So, I take the effort to improve my confidence like trying to speak in front of people. After a few years, I can see my improvement in my confidence. Now, I can speak in front of people more comfortably compare back then. I realize confident is something that I need to keep improve as I maintain the confidence in myself. I also realize that my self-esteem which is influence my level of confidence.

I also learn self-identity influence by the way we communicate to others. These knowledge help me to reflect on my self-identity which is self-concept, self-awareness, self-awareness and perception.

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Verbal communication  is the use of words to share information with other people. It can include both spoken and written communication. The verbal element of communication is all about the words that you choose, and how they are heard and interpreted.

There are many elements of verbal communication skills. Firstly, indirect verbal style which it is happens when a speaker’s true intentions are hidden. Second is direct verbal style which happens when a speaker’s intentions obvious, they say what they mean. Third is phonology which refer to the sounds used to pronounce words.

In this learning unit, I have learned more knowledge in this verbal communication skills especially how to have the effective communication with words. I always used the verbal communication in my daily life to communicate with others. For me, verbal communication is one of the way that can lead to effective communication. For instance, I communicate with my friends, family and lecturer using verbal communication. So, it is easy to me to understand what kind of thing that they want to deliver to me as well as I am deliver my messages to them.

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Nonverbal communication is communication without words and refers to all behaviors other than spoken words. Nonverbal communication that communicates messages and have shared meaning between communicators. Non-verbal communication is a process of using messages other than words to create meaning with others where it includes gestures, body language and how we utter words.

I learned about the categories of nonverbal communication or codes which is body movements and postures. Body movements may refer to position of finger, hand arms, feet and leg can convey level of agreement or interested.

Second is eye contact which important part of communication skills. It is because eye contact used to establish a connection between the people. By maintaining eye contact during communication will make the communication much more effective.

Next, we talk about facial expressions which also important part of communication. It is help us to understand the situation of the person. Besides, paralanguage or vocal cues also influence the emotions in communication. We need to always be aware of the volume of our voice, for any changes volume may send a negative message to the receiver.
Next is proxemics which refer to space. Each culture has its own proxemics which refer to intimate relationship, personal relationship, social relationship, and public relationship. Other than that, territory also part of nonverbal codes which use space or objects to communicate of ownership of space. Next is haptics which it is a study of human touch and we use touch for specific circumstances. For instance, we ask for favor so someone.

Appearance also codes of the nonverbal communication which refer to our choice of color, clothing, hairstyle is considered a means of nonverbal communication. Furthermore, appearance also may alter judgements and interpretations. Temporal communication refers to chronemics which psychological time emphasis or orientation of time. There are two type which are monochronic and polychronic. Monochronic refer to cultures schedule one thing at a time like working while polychronic refer to cultures schedule many things at a time like socializing and family gathering.

I also learned the skills to improve nonverbal communication include interpreting and expressing nonverbal messages by observe other reactions to my nonverbal behavior, be mindful to my verbal behavior, also ask others feedback about your nonverbal behavior and practice nonverbal behavior. I learned about cultural differences like posture gestures and facial expressions in other country. For instance in terms of eye contact, direct eye contact as positive attitude in western cultures but some of country like Japan, Afrika they avoid eye contact to show respect.

Nonverbal communication is important part of effective communication. I have known this nonverbal communication but in this learning unit I have depth knowledge about nonverbal communication. I used to communicate with my family and friends using nonverbal communication so it is easy to me to deliver my thought, expression, and emotions to them. I believe that this nonverbal communication skills are important as I will work and communicate with people.

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I remember those words that my friend told me that I am a good listener, in this today class. In learning unit 5, I learned about the listening process which refer to mindfulness, physically receiving messages, interpreting communication, responding, and remembering. Listening skills is how we interpret both verbal and nonverbal messages sent by others.

As for me, while I am listening to someone, I need to stay focus, look interested, improve myself by responding, test my understanding by ask her or him that I’m communicate and I also evaluate the messages. So it would be an effective communication which there are many benefits of effective listening which are avoid conflicts, improves relations, improves understanding, helps you stand out, enhances productivity and people will appreciate it.

I couldn’t agree more that listening is an important component of effective communication. Listening well is both part of receiving information and giving feedback.

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LU 6 FOUNDATION OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION 

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LU 6 FOUNDATION OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION 

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Interpersonal communication skills are fundamental in every aspect of the day to day life. These include the way we talk, the gestures we make, the tone of our voice. Interpersonal communication is our ability to communicate well with others is important to personal and professional success. Interpersonal relationships may lessen our loneliness, gain self-knowledge and self-esteem, enhance physical and emotional health and maximize pleasures and minimize pains. Communication leads to friendship, and those who have friends are happier.

I’ve experienced this stages model of relationship in terms of love relationship. First stage is contact whereby we exchange basic information and interact with each other. In this stage, we see got the personal looks like and sound like also get a physical picture of that person. The second stage is involvement, which this stage we increase time together to get know each other and reveal more about yourself. In this stage, our relationship tries to learn more about each other. Next stage is intimacy whereby we establish a relationship. We communicate becomes more personalized and easier. In this stage, our relationship can be honest and open taking about ourselves in our relationship.

After a few months, our relationships enter to deterioration which our relationship is not important as we had previously thoughts. Our communication patterns change whereby we communicate less and text infrequently. Finally, I decide to dissolution our relationship instead of repair as he had betrayed our relationship. That's how I experience the six stages in relationship.

There are types of interpersonal relationships which is friendship, love relationship, family relationship and work relationship. I have experience this types of interpersonal relationship.

For instance, in terms of friendship. When I was nine, I meet my friend whereby also known as my cousin. Since then, we always together in high school until we finish Malaysian Higher School Certificate. We do everything together and listen to each other’s secrets. But sometimes we had an argument. After that, we hardly spoke to each other. I didn’t like this kind of situation. Therefore, I decided to say sorry first. After we go to different university, we still communicate with each other even once a month. I felt like she always available with ears that truly listen and remind me that I’m not alone in my journey. Furthermore, the more we share ourselves, the more deepen these relationship.

In our day to day life, there are many conflicts occurred. In my own experience, I’ve always been one avoid conflict. It is because conflict makes me uncomfortable due my past conflict and had seen my parents had conflicts before. The conflict may lead to harsh communication which affect the entire family. Growing up and dealing with conflict, I have faced difficult obstacles and I believe it has prepared me for the conflict. Overall, I learned a lot about interpersonal communication which are crucial in our daily life as we use it in our personal and professional communication.

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When I first started this course, I thought of group communication primarily of just a group of individuals trying to achieve a certain goal by working together. As I reflect, I learned a lot about group communication, particularly group environment and interaction, which is working well in our group.

My group does an excellent job of developing and maintaining a positive attitude toward our assignments and the supportive atmosphere in which we work. My group members, for example, were usually full of praise and encouragement, saying things like "we can do this." They're putting in a lot of effort to keep our group positive, and it's working. Outside of class, I'm looking forward to seeing my group members to go lunch or dinner together. There is no defensive climate in our group. Everyone was doing their best to help us solve our difficulties and participate in the conversation. First and foremost, I am really satisfied with my group.

At first, I figured out that my group was going to be pretty good as we all got along party well, we all wanted good grades, and we knew what it would take for us to achieve those good grades. My overall thoughts about my group are that we all could depend on each other even though we all have packed schedule, and that is what made me realize that “being dependable” was key to the success of our group.

The first thing I need to work on is improving my listening skills. For example, sometimes during the group meeting, I can’t really catch up the key point of the conversation. As a result, I am unable to provide feedback and comments when our group requires it. So, in order to be a more effective listener, I need to be prepared to meet my group and ask some spontaneous questions. In order to connect with group members, I also need to use more nonverbal communication such as body language and eye contact.

Group communication is critical as I found it is helps me to adding my knowledge towards my major and anything in the business world.

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Organizational communication is the most important type of interpersonal communication a person has to perform in his or her adult life. Communicating with people in the workplace is a process that cannot be viewed as simple, but rather as a complex process that is vital to a person life as a whole.

We all know that communication is important in everyone's life and communicating in the workplace is merely a bigger part of maintaining cultural expectations and normalcy. Everyone communicates with each other in all different aspects of society. When I was younger, school is the main agency social communication and later it is the job I am occupy. It’s a social perspectives and as a norm that in adult life, we should communicate in work or in organization.

Anticipatory socialization is the first step, and it does not rely heavily on interactions with others, with the exception of sometimes chatting with the employer. The interview part of this stage can often have a significant impact on whether or not a potential employee accepts the job offer.

Furthermore, at this point, a person's expectations for the job are formed. Basically, a possible new employee must decide what life will be like on a daily basis in this firm. Though interpersonal communication is not heavily emphasized, the individual must engage in a significant amount of intrapersonal communication. He or she must consider and talk with themselves about whether or not taking this career will be fulfilling, and whether or not the employment is right for them.