Performance In Oral Communication Skills And Strategies

Language acts as an important medium for communication. Fluency in language creates a good image about the minds of the neighbors for the individuals. On the contrary, ordinary language serves the purpose, however it maintains continuity with the drab monotony in the life of the individual (Shokri et al., 2014). Attempts to use flowery and ornamental language and emerging successful adds to the personality of the individuals. On the other hand, emerging failure in the attempt to utilize ornamental language compels the individuals to witness mocking. In order to polish the preconceived communication skills, attending courses on communication skills holds prime importance. Attending these courses on a regular basis refines and upgrades the communicative skills of the individuals.

English is one of the main languages, in which the individuals are bound to have proficiency. This is owing to the commonality English has in terms of being a classic and stylish language all over the world. Gaining proficiency in English, helps the village students to fulfill their needs when they land in foreign countries for employment opportunities (Johnson, Veitch & Dewiyanti, 2015). Delving deep into the issue, it is a very rare case, that village students reach to that level to go abroad for higher studies. Countering this, possession of willingness and eagerness enables the individuals to undertake enduring tasks. In this respect, the village students can be termed as bilingual as they speak their mother tongue and are learning English. This motive has set the ground for the further discussion of the report.

Fluency in one language, for example, the mother tongue aggravates the complexities of the individuals when they encounter a person from foreign lands (Jackson, 2014). Knowing only one language is also problematic when the individuals visit some other land, where the people speak some other language. The situation possesses two connotations. On a comic tone, this type of situation helps the individual to outpour their anger upon the opposite person in their mother tongue. The point of laughter increases upon the blank look of the person as he does not understand a single word uttered by the person standing in front of him.  On a serious note, difficulty in understanding the words spoken by the other person makes the plight of both the persons helpless as neither of their needs is fulfilled. Herein, lays the need for knowing at least an extra language to be on the safe side (Fan et al., 2015).

Maintaining continuity with the discussion, bilingual persons are advantageous as compared to the persons knowing only one language. The outcome of this is the refinement of communication skills. Viewing it from the business perspective, knowing two languages adds to the personality of the employees when they give presentations to the foreign clients.

Moreover, attaining fluency in two languages adds to the preconceived skills, knowledge and expertise of the individuals (Johnson, Veitch & Dewiyanti, 2015). Attending courses on foreign languages enhances the personality of the individuals, which paves the way for penetrating into the foreign countries for better communicative opportunities. In this respect stance can be taken in favor of being bilingual.

References

Shokri, N. M., Lin, E. Y. E., Radzi, H. M., Mokhtar, R., Ghazali, F., Muslimen, M. A., & Tarmizi, M. A. A. (2014). Communication skills: A-must-have skills for today’s leaders. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Innovative Trends in Multidisciplinary Academic Research.

Johnson, S., Veitch, S., & Dewiyanti, S. (2015). A Framework to Embed Communication Skills across the Curriculum: A Design-Based Research Approach. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 12(4), 6.

Jackson, D. (2014). Business graduate performance in oral communication skills and strategies for improvement. The International Journal of Management Education, 12(1), 22-34.

Fan, S. P., Liberman, Z., Keysar, B., & Kinzler, K. D. (2015). The exposure advantage: Early exposure to a multilingual environment promotes effective communication. Psychological Science, 26(7), 1090-1097.