Oral
COMMUNICATION
in Context
FUNCTIONS OF
COMMUNICATION
ACTIVITY 1: LET’S WARM UP
1. Form five groups.
2. Create a two-minute group
presentantion that reflects your
understanding to the five functions of
communication
3. Be Creative
4. You have five minutes to prepare.
GROUP 1- CONTROL/REGULATION - SHORT ROLE PLAY
GROUP 2- SOCIAL INTERACTION- JINGLE
GROUP 3- MOTIVATION- POEM
GROUP 4- EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION- DANCE
GROUP 5- INFORMATION DISSEMINATION- SONG
Basically, there are five
functions of communication.
These are control or
regulation, social interaction,
motivation, emotional
expression, and information
dissemination.
1. CONTROL OR REGULATION
Communication functions to control
behavior.
To control or regulate behavior or direct others,
words are usually directives, order, or
requests, and tone and bodily actions are
authoritative and firm
Every organization has its regulations and
these regulations are communicated to all
members in various ways.
Example:
1. A small organization such as a family has its
house rules which every member has to follow.
2. The school implements rules which students and
other members of the school community are
obliged to follow.
3. The dress code in a public school serves
to dictate the style dressing among students.
4. In the school setting, a security officer
may hinder a student or a school visitor
from entering.
5. A dean may oblige the faculty members
to attend a seminar-workshop.
6. A teacher may require a student to turn
off their cell phones.
2. SOCIAL INTERACTION
Communication allows individuals to
interact with others.
Because of the needs to interact daily,
people communicate.
to interact with others and be connected
with other people, words are mostly
informal terms, and tone is friendly, even
teasing, and bodily action is relaxed
Example:
1. A students has to talk with his parents
regarding his allowance and school
requirements.
2. He has to talk to the driver of the jeepney or
bus, if not to the LRT or MRT tickening clerk.
3 In school, it is invetivable for him not to
coverse with his teachers, classmates,
schoolmates, school employess and officials.
3. MOTIVATION
Communication motivates or
encourages people to live
better.
Motivation is either internal
or external
1. INTERNAL MOTIVATION comes
from within. It is something personal.
Example:
A student is motivated to study hard
because of his desires to graduate with
honors.
2. EXTERNAL MOTIVATION emanates from
the outside or from people surrounding him.
Example:
A student is motivated to study hard because
of his father's promise to give him an
expensive car once he graduates with
honors.
Encouraging words serve to stimulate people to
perform or do better, that is, motivate them in a
positive way.
Example:
1. A breast cancer patient may desire to live longer
after he hears words of hope from his loved ones.
2. A failing student may continue pursuing his
chosen career path the moment he hears words of
encouragement from the school's guidance
counselor.
4. EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION
Communication facilitates people's
expression of their feelings and emotions.
Communication does not involve ideas
only. It also involves emotions
As an individual communicates, he
emotes.
Example:
When one informs another about the impending
supertyphoon, the informer may express various
emotions in different situations.
1. As he informs his loved ones, he may show fear
because their house is not a safe place to stay when
there is a supertyphoon.
2. He may show love or concern as he informs them for
them to get ready for the calamity.
3. He may show joy and excitement as he envisions
another day of no classes or a grand vacation.
5. INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
• Communication functions to convey
information.
• Many events or incidents happen
everyday. These occurrences affect
people so they have to be informed.
Example:
1. A new policy to be implemented school-
wide has to be made known to all members
before its implementation.
2. The school administration must tell all
students enrolled in board courses such
accountacy and engineering, specifically the
grades that they have to earn for them to be
retained.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
Speaking functions in five ways.
It regulates and controls behavior, as in the case of
following orders or instructions.
It is used for social interaction and sharing
information through dynamic, clear, and purposeful
conversation.
It motivates individuals to express what and how
they feel through the use of certain words that depict
a variety of emotions.
PAPER AND PENCIL: QUIZ
Directions: Identify the function of communication in each of the following
situation.
1. The teacher reads and discusses classroom policies to her
students.
2. Ross greets Rachel; then they start talking about their
plans for the holidays.
3. Phoebe shares her insights on how to live peacefully despite
a complicated life.
4. Monica shares her personal frustrations with Chandler.
5. The geometry teacher lectures about mathematical concepts.
[Link] delivers her valedictory speech.
7. The President delivers his last State of the Nation
Address.
8. A television personality thanks the supportive
moviegoers during an interview.
9. The city mayor presents her strategies to execute
the plans in a public forum.
10. A tourist guide orients a group of tourists about a
heritage site.
SHARE KO LANG!- SKL!!
Plato once said
“ Wise men speak because they have
something to say.”
