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Purposive Com Module 3 Act 1

The document discusses challenges in intercultural communication. It provides examples of students from India who did not understand examples given by their teacher because there was no cultural connection. It notes that cultural differences are commonly resolved by adopting and respecting differing cultural values. The document asks students to analyze pictures of hand gestures and determine their meanings. It then asks students to complete tasks to check their understanding of avoiding miscommunication when interacting with other cultures. Students are asked to provide examples of past miscommunication and what they have done to understand other cultures better.

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Purposive Com Module 3 Act 1

The document discusses challenges in intercultural communication. It provides examples of students from India who did not understand examples given by their teacher because there was no cultural connection. It notes that cultural differences are commonly resolved by adopting and respecting differing cultural values. The document asks students to analyze pictures of hand gestures and determine their meanings. It then asks students to complete tasks to check their understanding of avoiding miscommunication when interacting with other cultures. Students are asked to provide examples of past miscommunication and what they have done to understand other cultures better.

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Republic of the Philippines

ZAMBOANGA CITY STATE POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE


Region IX, Zamboanga Peninsula
R.T. Lim Blvd, Zamboanga City
Name: ROI A. SUAREZ Year and Section: II- G
Course Code: GE 115
Course Description: Purposive comm

MODULE 3: Coping with the Challenges of Intercultural Communication


UNIT 1
TITLE: Challenges, Sources of Miscommunication and Approaches in Studying Intercultural Communication
ACTIVITY: LET US EXPLORE

Cultural differences among speakers have been one of the common problems in communication. Watch the video
below by clicking the link. 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmoYmcZCoiw  Jan 9, 2012 Intercultural communication and understanding are
important  

1. What were the concerns of the students in the examples presented by the teacher?
Answer:

 The common concern of the students is they don’t understand the different examples presented to them by the
teacher.

2. What do you think is the connection of the examples to the Indians students?


Answer:
 So far based on the video, the problem arises because there’s no connection any of the examples presented by
the teachers to the Indian student.
3. How were the cultural differences resolved? 
Answer:
 Everyone is raised differently and adapts to the culture around them. Since we all come from a variety of
diverse cultures, the way we handle conflict differs. Conflict in culture usually occurs because of the
differences in values. Therefore to resolves cultural differences is to adopt and respect the cultural differences
or individual differences.
 ANALYSIS: GETTING READY
 Look at the picture carefully, what do these hand gesture mean?   List down   your answer for
each picture. Start  with the first  row hand gesture from left to right ,2 ,3 anf 4 row nd rd th

respectively.Compare your answer to your classmate. Do you have similarities and differences on
your answers?  

1. Beg 9. Good job


2. Saying you are present 10. Agree
3. Stop 11. Let’s party/Rock
4. you choose
5. Up here
6. Call me
7. Finish
8. Ok
APPLICATION: LET ME TRY

  Task 1: LET’S SHARPEN YOUR SKILLS 

 Check your understanding of the input by answering the following questions: Answer the following questions
below. Please refer to rubric on page 101 table  4 as your guide in answering the task.

1. Cite certain situations when you encountered miscommunication while talking with people of different
nationalities.
Answer:
 I remember before when I was a security guard at the when one of our client Mr. Memeth the president of
the Filipino-Turkish Tolerance High School when he meet with he’s Arab friend and they kiss on each
other chick we think it’s weird because they are both male but its just pleasant with them as their sign of
respect and greetings.

2. As a conscientious student what have you done so far to avoid miscommunication and misunderstanding when
communicating with people of different cultures?
Answer:

 I try my best to not sound rude and ignorant in front of them. When I accidentally make an offensive
remark, I make sure to apologize immediately and not be too defensive about it. Embracing other's culture
without the need to criticize and make fun of them is an important thing for us, not only students but
everyone, to learn and to avoid miscommunication and misunderstanding to people with different
cultures I’ll take time to understood and be open to what other people are saying.

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