UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Communication is not only sending information but ensuring that the receiver understands it as intended. The key idea is that both sender and receiver come to share a common interpretation of the message. This emphasis on common understanding is captured by the phrase sharing of meaning. Therefore,communication is best defined as a process of sharing of meaning between sender and receiver.

Option A:
This option highlights meaning as the core of communication. When teacher and students share the same meaning about a concept,learning truly takes place. Hence this phrase matches standard definitions of communication used in education and communication theory.

Option B:
Storing of data refers to keeping information in books,files or digital devices. Storage can exist without any active sender–receiver interaction or understanding. Therefore,it cannot by itself be treated as the communication process described in the stem.

Option C:
Memorising of facts is an internal cognitive activity of an individual learner. It may occur after communication,but memorisation alone does not describe the two-way process between sender and receiver. Thus this option is narrower than the definition given.

Option D:
Controlling of behaviour can be one possible outcome of communication,such as following rules after instructions. However,communication also includes sharing ideas,feelings and information beyond behaviour control. So defining communication only as control is incomplete.