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Înţelegere versus interpretare, comperhensiune versus explicaţie
Understanding versus interpretation, comprehension versus explanation

Author(s): Merima Carmen Petrovici
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Asociaţiunea Transilvană pentru Literatura Română şi Cultura Poporului Român - ASTRA
Keywords: understanding; comprehension; interpretation; explanation; communication

Summary/Abstract: Understanding, interpreting, comprehending and explaning, are philosophical and fundamental concepts in the communication precess. Furthermore for educators these concepts represent methods within the instructive-educational activities they rely on. Although seemingly trivial and available to anyone, the correct use of these terms can result in practical performance descriptors for those who want to became „good communicators”. The purpose of this paper is to help identify the differences between these concepts, to highlight their interdependence and the fact that they constitute the steps necessary to achieve full understanding.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 168-170
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Romanian