THE COMPARISON BETWEEN ONE WAY AND TWO WAY COMMUNICATION OF

LEARNERS’ ROLE IN CLASSROOM

By:

M. Ghozali Affan 125110500111006

School of Undergraduate Studies of University of Brawijaya

WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?

Communication is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior. It is the meaningful exchange of information between two or a group of person (Wikipedia).

THE LEARNER’S ROLE IN COMMUNICATION

Two types of communicationin wich learners participate:

1. One-way.

2. Two-way (Restricted and full).

ONE WAY COMMUNICATION

In one-way communication, the learner listens to or reads the target language but does not respond.

The communication is one-way, towards the learner, not from the learner.

Examples:

Listening to speeches and radio programs,

watching films and most televisions programs,

and reading books and magazines.

sender

message

receiver

WHAT IS TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION?

Two-way communication always includes feedback from the receiver to the sender and lets the sender know the message has been received accurately

Both sender and receiver listen to each other, gather information and are willing to make changes to work together in harmony

RESTRICTED TWO-WAY

In restricted two-way, the learner responds orally to someone, but the learner does not use target language. The response may be in the learner’s first language or some other non target language and may include a nonverbal response such as nodding.

FULL TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION

Most of the available empirical research emphasizes the benefits of allowing one-way and restricted two-way communication during the early parts of the learning process and waiting until the student is ready to produce the target language before insisting on full two-way communication.

In full two-way communication, the learner speak in the target language, acting both recipient and sender of verbal messages.

ONE WAY VS. TWO WAY COMMUNICATION

ONE WAY TWO WAY

Hard to understand Easier to understand

The sender is conveying a message to receivers without expecting the receivers to ask questions about it

Receivers can ask questions about the message

THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ONE-WAY COMMUNICATION

The advantages of one-way communications are that the sender has no problem; they can carry on with their work and don’t have to worry about anything.

The disadvantage for one way communication would be that they cannot state their opinion and how the media text has affected them.

 THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF TWO-WAY COMMUNICATIONS

The ADVANTAGE of two-way communications are that the senders and the receivers get to discuss what they would like. they can respond to the sender and ask questions or talk about concerns over with the sender.

The DISADVANTAGE the sender gets bothered and has to always focus on what the receivers want more than what they want. Most times this is a bother to most senders because every one has a different opinion about things and the sender has to make something that majority of the people will enjoy.

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CONCLUSION

After conducting this experiment, we have concluded that both communications are good at the conditional situation.

One–way communication is appropriate in the class which focuses on listening, reading, and such kind of them. Whereas, two-way communication is a better way for people to interact with each other and much easier to accomplish a task especially in the class which focuses on building speaking and sharing. Two-way communication allows the receiver of the message reply or question on something they did not understand

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