Hello, dear Hivers! Welcome back to MIYA’s blog! <33 Last week in our Oral Communication class, we were assigned by our teacher to create a walking gallery showcasing the different models of communication, and I’m excited to share our project with all of you! So please keep reading and enjoy :>
To begin, we all know that communication is the process of exchanging/sharing ideas or information with another person. There are three types of communication models, the Shannon-Weaver Model, the Transactional Model, and the Schramm Model.
Let’s start with the Shannon-Weaver Model. It is considered a one-way communication process that is linear and it consists of messages that are sent from the sender to the receiver through a channel that can be interfered with by noise. As you can see/observe in our project, this model is best explained by a phone call where the sender puts a message in the phone acting as a channel then the receiver decodes the message. However, there could be cases such as static or a poor signal which may interfere with the message passed out making the message to be noisy.
Next is the Transactional Model of communication, it differs from the previous model in that it is a process in which both participants are engaged both as transmitters and as receivers. This model is particularly appropriate in a situation such as a debate like what we have made where participants constantly have to ‘broadcast’ messages in the form of arguments and counterarguments while also having to ‘listen’ feedback from each other and the audience. The roles of the context and the experiences during the interaction are important for achieving the interaction goals.
And lastly, the Schramm Model. The Schramm Model especially pays attention to the repetitious pattern of communication since it lies in the area of immediacy between the sender and the receiver. In our example which is a restaurant context, this model is evident when a customer decides to order a certain meal. In this case, the customer transmits his or her expression of preference, while the waiter interprets it as per his or her interpretation of the message. The waiter then gives feedback and asks the customer some questions concerning the order to confirm the order, thus completing the feedback loop. This interaction shows how both of them switch between the roles of the sender and the receiver since they both' have to rely on mutual assumptions and feedback to have a message delivered and received effectively.
Did you learn something today, my dear readers? Guess what?? Our class was allowed to choose 3 random teachers/guards/staff from our school to evaluate and provide feedback on our project, and we scored a perfect 100 points from all of them! Thanks to our hard work and teamwork, we achieved this amazing result, and we couldn’t be more thrilled! <3
That is all for today’s blog my dear readers! Thank you for being with me today. As I continue this journey, I 
