Reflection Paper On Interpersonal Communication

Interpersonal communication class helped me understand how to communicate with diverse people and how to communicate in different ways. Interpersonal communication is influenced by culture and gender; different cultures have anticipations about relationships and how people should interact and communicate within those relationships. Even though I learned many interesting things from all the chapters, the chapters that I enjoyed the most are about nonverbal communication, listening communication, and emotional communication.

Nonverbal communication

Nonverbal communication, also called manual language, is the process of sending and receiving messages without using words, spoken or written. Nonverbal communication includes pitch, speed, tone and

I didn’t have enough knowledge about nonverbal communication before I took this class. The culture I grew up in has different meanings for nonverbal communication compared to other countries. Sleeping with your brother or friend on the same bed, people touching, and eye contact is normal in my culture, but has a different meaning in other cultures. We interpret messages according to how people react, and look. After I learned about nonverbal communication my eyes were opened and I remembered that my dad said to me, “don’t judge a person without knowing him or her very well.” Now I stop judging people by how they react or look. This chapter helped me understand how I will use nonverbal communication and how forms of nonverbal communication have different meanings with different cultures. Don’t judge a book by its

After reading this chapter, I changed the way I used to communicate with people. I found out that I am not that good at listening communication, when people talk with me I usually think about other things and pretend to listen to them. Learning how to be an effective listener can help you become a better student, be more effective in your interpersonal relationships, lead others to perceive you as more intelligent and can help you become a stronger public speaker. Now I listen to other people when they talk to me by using the methods I learned from the book. Listening communication will be important in the future for my career because it is essential to know what people are saying and to give them the right answer. Working in groups to get information from all your group members and listening carefully to their response will get the work done correctly. With good listening skills you get more ideas and information from your team. Effective listening is very often the foundation of strong relationships with others, at home, socially, in education and in the