Noise In Communication Process

Message conveys information. A message is transmitted through communica t ion that is the process of interaction between the sender and receiver. Communication is transfer of information from one person to another person (Brown, 2012). A clear message is transferred to receiver by sender. The communication happens when the receiver understand the messages. In general, communication process consists of six steps namely start a message, encodes message, transmits message, receives message, decodes message and lastly gives feedback (refer to Figure 1 in Appendix 1).

Firstly, the process of communication occurs with a source or start a message. The communication is started when the message source is initiated by a sender, and it is delivered to

Noise is used to explain the psychological and physical forces that interrupt communication (Adler & Towne, 1978).

Moreover, noise is classified into physical and psychological. Physical noise is defined as the noticeable distraction in the environment that cause the difficulties to pay attention and listen, while psychological noise is the mechanism in people that limit a receiver’s capability to convey or understand clearly (Adler & Towne, 1978). Therefore, though the speaker delivers a clear message, the noise hinders the message from perfectly received or decoded by the receiver. Lunenburg (2010) indicates that there are several examples of noise such as emotions and attitudes, language barriers, misunderstanding and differ e nt perceptions of the message.

The last step in communication process is giving feedback. When the receiver gives respond to the sender’s message and returns the message to the sender, feedback occurred

(Lunenburg, 2010). Moreover, it permits the sender to know whether the message is effective or not. Besides, the feedback from the receiver enables the sender to take