Health and Social Care Unit 201

this type of behavior because they may have other mental health issues or may not feel confident

Communication – use language that easy to understand do not use professional terms that can be difficult to understand.

-Communication & Language Barriers- We know that one of our team member is concerned about the language barrier and we will see to it that at all times she is sure of what she needs to do and is on the correct path. All team members acknowledged that communication is essential to the success of our project, and will take all efforts to keep open and honest communication.

For this last group assignment, we were given a case study about language variation. There were four scenarios, and my team’s group was honored to have the only non-English variety of English, Spanish. For our case study we had to focus on children from San Juan, Puerto Rico who have relocated to Hartford, Connecticut due to Hurricane María. These children will be transferring with the Hartford School System, which have been financially troubled for a large amount of time. This leaves us to many problems, such as how each school is going to adapt for the new students, school placement and how to not go over the budget, on top of all of Hartford’s existing problems. As people on a school board, we had to think of ways to solve these issues.

Just as journal I have done befor , discuss a real life scenario involving communication ( message processing, interpersonal, organizational, media effects, intercultural) .

1. Children who are growing up in a new country are facing problems in understanding and speaking a new language. For instance , my cousin who is 13 years old has moved to Canada and she wasn’t able to merge into Canadian community friends and school due to the language issue. In addition, Children are getting strucked between the two languages and struggling a lot to adapt the new

are afraid of being judged or being judged negatively, and especially fear being mistaken for

What are the two major problems associated with written communication and two with verbal communication in an organization?

3. A common language: If the sender and receiver are going to understand each other, they will need a

Our organization utilizes both verbal and written communications that are very common forms of communication. However, it can encounter barriers that have to be addressed such as language, terminology, tone or even non-verbal communications through

Language barriers often cause issues, employees lose self-confidence and induce a sense of fear and confusion. Employees are under the notion that they are more valued to the organization when their fluency is high and in turn boosts the level of commitment (Sanchez, 2006). Lack of commitment results in reduced confidence levels and low capacity of work efficiency resulting in issues. Reluctance in approaching managers in order to communicate in high among non-English speakers (Loosemore & Lee, 2002). Lack of common understanding of a language lead to misinterpretations, lack of productivity which cost the industry losses in billions of

The main challenges is to adapt the communication, how to adapt their performance management which each individual depending on the culture.

The next goal is to make sure what people hear they can understand. This may be a challenge for most people. When we speak with our friends we often use slang. We also are not that conscientious of our pronunciation. We often use the context of our conversation to help interpret what is being communicated. The audience should not be forced to do that. We need to articulate when we speak.

Communication: Company has a two-way communication channel to map the needs, expectations and aspirations of the

By writing well-constructed reports, analysis and by discussions, both written and„ oral communicative skills are developed.