The document outlines the five functions of communication: control or regulation, social interaction, motivation, emotional expression, and information dissemination. It includes activities for group presentations, discussions about cultural sensitivity, and quizzes on identifying communication functions in various scenarios. Overall, it emphasizes the importance of effective communication in fostering understanding and interaction among individuals.

1. FUNCTIONS OF
COMMUNICATION

2. ACTIVITY 1: BESSSS RECALL MO, REMIND MO!
1.Who among of you can remind the
Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity
when we are communicating to other cultures?
2.Do you think it helps you to become sensitive
to other people?

3. ACTIVITY 1: LET’S WARM UP
1. Form groups of four to five members.
2. Create a two-minute group
presentantion that reflects your
understanding the five functions of
communication
3. Be Creative
4.You have five minutes to prepare.

4. GROUP 1- CONTROL/REGULATION -
GROUP 2- SOCIAL INTERACTION-
GROUP 3- MOTIVATION-
GROUP 4- EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION-
GROUP 5- INFORMATION DISSEMINATION-

5. QUESTIONS:
1.How can we communicate?
2.Why should we use a strategy in speaking when the
ability to communicate is a natural gift?
3.How can we foster better understanding among
people of different cultural background?
4.What are the functions of communication?

6. Basically, there are five functions of
communication.These are control
or regulation, social interaction,
motivation, emotional expression, and
information dissemination.

7. 1.CONTROL OR REGULATION
Communication functions to control behavior.
Every organization has its regulations and these
regulations are communicated to all members in
various ways.

8.  For 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 business organization serves to dictate
the style dressing among its members, particularly the
employees.

9. 2.SOCIAL INTERACTION
Communication allows individuals to
interact with others.
Because of the needs to interact daily,
people communicate.

10. For 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.

11. 3.MOTIVATION
Communication motivates or
encourages people to live better.
Motivation is either internal or
external

12. 1. INTERNAL MOTIVATION comes
from within. It is something personal.
For example:
A student is motivated to study hard
because of his desires to graduate with
honors.

13. 2. EXTERNAL MOTIVATION emanates
from the outside or from people surrounding
him.
For 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.

14. Encouraging words serve to stimulate people to
perform or do better, that is, motivate them in a
positive way.
For 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.

15. 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.

16. For 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.

17. 5.INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
•Communication functions to convey
information.
•Many events or incidents happen everyday.
These occurrences affect people so they
have to be informed.

18. For 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.

19. 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.

20. ACTIVITY 2: E-WRITE MO BES!
Give at least five reasons or purposes
why people communicate.

21. ACTIVITY 3: THAT FEELINGS!
Directions:
Think of a person who best motivates you.
How does he/she serve as your motivation?
Recall the motivating line he/she gave you.

22. ACTIVITY 4: REFLECTION
• Write your insightss gained from the discussion. Complete the
following phrases.
• 1. I have learned that
__________________________________________
• 2. It is important that
__________________________________________

23. 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.

24. 6.Sheila 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.

25. SHARE KO LANG!- SKL!!
Plato once said
“ Wise men speak because they have
something say.”