Vocabulary

Component

Sentence Found: U.S diplomats could enter a foreign country fully competent in the native language and yet still flounder.

Why Gen-Y Johnny Can't Read Nonverbal Cues

Context Clues: Fully, In the native language, Miscommunication, Having Failed

Type of clue: Contrast

Guess: Knowledge, understanding, know what to do.

Dictionary Definition: Having the necessary ability; knowledge or skill to do something successful 

People with component math skills, can be accepted to almost any job.

Acculturation

Sentence Found: "The Silent Language" is acquired through acculturation, not schooling. Not only is it unspoken: it is largely unconscious.

Why Gen-Y Johnny Can't Read Nonverbal Cues 

Context Clues: Schooling, language, acquired, unspoken.

Type of clue: Inference 

Guess: Practice, custom, inherited

Dictionary Definition: A process in which members of one cultural group adopts the beliefs or behaviors of another group. 

Some people have strange acculturation's, that will be alarming for some. 

Misconstruing

Sentence Found: For Hall, breakdowns in nonverbal communication took place most damagingly in cross-cultural circumstances--- for instance, federal workers dealing with Navajo Indians and misconstruing their basic conceptions of time. Within cultures, Hall assumed, people more or less "spoke" the same silent language. 

Why Gen-Y Johnny Can't Read Nonverbal Cues 

Context Clues: Communication, cultural, circumstances, basic, conceptions.

Type of clue: Contrast 

Guess: I think it means that their is a misunderstanding in culture and practices.

Dictionary Definition: To mistake the meaning of 

Their was a misconstruing on what affect and effect meant?