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how to hold a discussion, how to respond to people of different national and
racial groups, how to behave in strange places, and so on.
As with all human attributes there are individual differences, but most of
us to a greater or lesser degree show a desire to be with others just for the sake
of it. We particularly value and seek out contact with those of similar attitudes
and experience, where interaction offers rich communication potential. The
experience of separateness arouses anxiety. Separate means being cut off,
without any capacity to use the human powers of interpersonal communica-
tion. The importance of social communication is perhaps reflected by the
observation that deafness is often found to be greater burden to bear than
blindness. Loss of sight, our dominant sense, may make performing every-
day tasks immeasurably more difficult, but deafness cuts off our primary
mode of contact with others. Thus, socialization and communication are
intertwined.

SUMMAR Y

In this chapter, we have been acquainted with the various channels—both
verbal and nonverbal communication. This gives us an in-depth knowl-
edge of the processes of communication, qualities of communication and
the differences between different modes of communication. The channels
of communication familiarize a teacher with the psychological, social, and
motivational aspects of communication, which is very important for the
teacher to know, understand an d practice communication effectively, the
objective here is to familiarize the teacher as to how communication works,
and that, to be an effective communicator, one has to be familiar with the
different form, aspects, processes and channels of communication. A teacher
also needs to understand, decipher, and respond to students’ communica-
tion pattern, interest, motivation, etc. The knowledge of the channels of
communication will equip the teacher to handle interpersonal and didactic
communication effectively.

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