IE3 Seminar ICC: Lesson 11

Hi everyone,

We're almost finished with the units from our textbook, and then we'll be starting our group presentations.

Language as a Barrier:
We finished up last week's lecture about translation problems and how they can be a barrier to intercultural communication.

We looks at how it can be a challenge to translate:
1. experiential equivalence
2. conceptional equivalence

For experiential equivalence, we took a look at the difficulty in translating "setsumeikai" into English since there are different contexts for how it is used in the Japanese language. When referring to job hunting, we came up with the translation "job recruitment seminar" and "job recruitment fair."

Nonverbal Communication:
We then moved on to nonverbal communication and the functions of it. We mostly focused on how nonverbal communication is used to replace spoken messages and to support spoken messages.

We had an activity on the use of symbols as a way to replace spoken messages, and then we had a gesture game to show how gestures are used to support spoken messages.

Remember to use nonverbal communication in your upcoming presentations.

Homework:
1.  Complete your presentation
2.  Blog Comment #10
3.  Reading pp. 233-261 (ch. 10) and worksheet

• Please download the worksheet at the end of the summary. This will be your "reflection topic" for this week. I'll collect the worksheet at the beginning of next week's lesson.
  

Blog Question #10:

Tell me about a time you had to use nonverbal communication (in Japanese or English).

• What was the function of it?
  
• How was it interpreted (by the other person)?
• Was it effective?

*Write 150-200 words.
*Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
*Submit by Monday, June 29 by 6:00pm.

Women & Families Worksheet
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