Empowering Resilient Community through Communicative Competence By: Liezel R. Capitanea Members of the board of judges, fellow orators, friends, ladies and gentlemen, a warmth morning to each and everyone. I take pride to deliver an oratorical piece on empowering resilient community through communicative competence. We are now living in a fast phase society. The development of communication and transportation technology has shrunk the world, in which the global interdependence for people and cultures becomes a norm of life. As a result, the increasing frequency of face-to-face interaction among people from different cultural, ethnic, social, and religious backgrounds demands that we develop intercultural/global communication competence, by which we know how to see things through the eyes of others and add their knowledge to our personal repertoires. Communication competence make people from different backgrounds communicate effectively and successfully in the globalizing general public. Therefore, communication competence becomes a critical ability for adjusting people to the demand of the 21st century because of this, sometimes peace is at stake. In the history of competent communication dates back many centuries. Early Greek and Roman philosophers, such as Aristotle, Plato, and Cicero, were some of the first writers to attempt to describe what competent communication looks like and how it works. In fact, communicative competence (or the outward appearance thereof) was held in such high regard among the aristocracy of both Greece and Rome that an entire industry, sophistry, arose out of a need for communication instruction, particularly in public speaking, dialectics, and public debate. As communicative competence unfolds, we see how the centuries-old concepts about communication have reached fruition in some of the theoretical models of what now is referredto as competent communication. At times, people around us exude an outward appearance of innate communicative competence; they have the “gift of the gab,” so to speak. Others have to work at it. While there may be some component to peoples personalities that makes them more effective communicators, most scholars agree that communication behaviors and skills are learned. Therefore, any discussion of communication competence first should consider how people learn to communicate. Some of the popular models of communication competence appear to have their roots in a widely used and oft-cited model of learning perhaps. In modern times, communication scholars and teachers have worked hard to understand and describe what it means to be a competent communicator. These attempts to better understand competent communication are in part a result of a large body of research indicating that the ability to communicate competently is critical to a persons personal and professional success in life. ‘ Communicative competence extends to both knowledge and expectation of who may or may not speak in certain settings, when to speak and when to remain silent, whom one may speak to, how one may talk to persons of different statuses and roles, how to ask for and give information, how to request, how to give commands, etc. in short, everything involving the use of language and other communicative dimensions in particular social settings. It needs to be pointed out that cross-cultural differences can and do produce conflicts or inhibit communication. For example, certain American Indian groups are accustomed to waiting several minutes in silence before responding to a question or taking a turn in conversation, while the native English speakers they may be talking to have very short time frames for responses or conversational turn-taking, and find silences embarrassing. In this way, the concept of communicative competence must be embedded in the notion of cultural competence or the total set of knowledge and sills which speakers bring into a situation. In fact, all aspects of culture are relevant to communication, but those that have the most direct bearing on communicative forms and processes are the social structure, the values and attitudes held about language and ways of speaking, the net work of conceptual categories which results from shared experiences, and the ways knowledge and skills are transmitted from one generation to the next, and to new members of the group. All in all, communicative competence refers to knowledge and skills for contextually appropriate use and interpretation of language in a community; it refers to the communicative knowledge and skills shared by the group, although these reside variably in its individual members. The shared yet individual nature of competence reflects the nature of language itself. Communication plays a vital role in our lives. We are what we are today because of the many inventions that technology has brought us to better and improve communication process. Many times people had misconceptions of how communication is properly used. But at the crossroad, there is the mother of all languages, the ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Everyone is empowered to embrace and make use of it and make communication competent in one way or another. Further, for as long as human beings have been communicating, and have tried to figure out how to communicate well, that is, with competence. Though, we know for a fact that nothing in this world is perfect, no matter how hard we try to be. The advent of TECHNOLOGY has likewise captured our lives and has affected the society and its surroundings in a number of ways. But we have to remember that only technology transforms, communication is still there as it is and the etiquette involved wont be a complete reinvention of the wheel. Communication itself has not changed; just the technologies we use to engage with it. As new technology emerges, there are new manners associated with the new methods of communication. The important thing is we keep our priorities straight. Besides, we have to cooperate and help one another, build bridges and connect to the community thru effective and competent communication. As this will be the key for a peaceful and productive society. We are all one people, we are all equal. Therefore, we are all responsible of one another. Finally, with a society that is empowering lives, breaking the barriers moving forward, learning from the past, backed down yet stood up amidst crisis through communicative competence we could have less misunderstandings and conflicts and we could all unite. When all of us are united, we can make the world a better place – a place worth living, a place worth remembering and passing on to the next generation. Together, as one community, we can attain our goals and aspirations. Who knows? When we are effective an competent communicators, we can achieve world peace. Adelante! Yan yung piece sa ORATORICAL SPEECH ko! Ang haba no? Waah, Sa November26 ko na to ipeperform! Buti nalang kabisado kona :) Kaso ang problem 4-5mins lang yan.. Kaya ko to, AJA! :D
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:11:53 +0000
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