First, I watch the show with the sound turned off.
I see two main characters in the episode. I see a man is standing in front of a
blackboard. I guess he is a teacher. Later, I see a man who is sitting closer
to the teacher with black shirt. I guess he is a student.
The teacher is teaching a math class. On the
board, there is a name Mr. John. I guess the teacher's name is John. First, he
was saying something while was looking at a paper then he handed out the paper
to a student. I guess the paper is the homework of the student. The teacher
returns the homework to student. Second, the teacher started reading something
from a piece of paper, there is an obstacle flying over in front of the teacher.
He looked up, frowned at someone, then continued to say something. While the
teacher said, "five" from the shape of his mouth, a student
interrupted him. He stopped speaking and we see a student counting with his
figure. The teacher and the student begin one-one-one communication after the
teacher moved to closer to the student, which seemed the teacher was teaching,
and the student was learning to count the number that are less than 10.
When turned the sound on, I watch again and find
that the characters I plotted are correct. the environment set looks like a
classroom. That is a teacher would be the one standing in front of a blackboard.
Students would sit in the classroom. The communication was not correct. I can
not sight that the teacher said "take away". So message regard the
subtraction was not received.
It is hard to assumption more correct on what
teacher is teaching without verbal language. It might be more correct if I
understand the sign language and the teacher also use official sign language. However,
this is not case in this episode.
Communication refers to "the process by
which we use symbols, signs, and behaviors to exchange information."(O'Hair, 2012). Communication
is symbolic that requires a shared code, links to culture, and is transactional
through various channels. Communication skills are appropriate behaviors refer
to verbal skills, nonverbal skills, and listen skills. In this episode,
nonverbal communication such as gestures, body movement, facial expressions,
and eye behavior, voice, space and environment do transfer most information
regard the characters and where and what the character are doing. However, "nonverbal
communication can be interpreted in many different ways. Nonverbal is not a
true language." (O'Hair, 2012). For this episode, we need to hear the verbal language
so that we could understand what the true message is being communicating: teacher
and the student are communicating on the subtraction.
Reference:
O’Hair,
D., & Wiemann, M. (2012). Real communication: An introduction (2nd Ed.). New
York