Assignment Purpose:

Explain how communication barriers affect your own personal experience with intercultural communication.

Assignment Details:

Choose one person (from a different culture than yourself) who you have communicated with on a professional level in the last year (a co-worker, a manager, or a professor). Provide background of this person. What age range are they in? what kind of education do they have? what kind of families do they come from? where do they live? what beliefs and values do they hold? And any other relevant/interesting information.

List three (3) communication barriers (discussed in Week 2) that you have experienced with this person and reflect on your personal experiences relating to those barriers.

Use the following questions to assist in each of the three (3) communication barriers:

• What is the communication barrier?
• How does it affect your interactions?
• What could you do to help remove or lessen the communication barrier?