My thesis 5/23

Last week I read a article called "English Language Teaching and Learner's Communicative Competence in Japan" by Shogo Kashiwase at Utsunomiya University. I think it is really useful article, because I'm considering the definition of "communication" now.

He investigated what communication is and what we should do to develop the competence of general communication in schools.
Human communication is realized through 5 senses: hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. Communication has 2 stages of encoding and decoding.
General communication is to exchange massages, information and intention. The messages are composed of complex bundle of feelings, attitude, beliefs and values. General communication is a package of signals, a total of actions.
Speech communication can send many variety of messages to other people. Speesh communication is supported and complemented by other channels of communication such as distance, place, timing, action, body movement, and so on.
He said Japanese people are required to develop the skill of general communication through all of the 5 perceptual senses, dynamics of general communication. English teaching for Japanese people is to develop their general communicative competence through English.

I still don't decide what communication is I am going to define, but I am sure general communication and speech communication he analyzed.