Brief Thoughts on Teacher/Student Miscommunications

“No message is ever perfectly communicated between two people. All the past events and texts and images that formed my meanings for a word are different from yours. This can create a difficult reality. [...] Things are often lost in translation. This is more pronounced the more the speaker and listener differ. A listener has expectations about the speaker’s topic  and predicts what will be said.”

-from Building Academic Language; Essential Practices for Content Classrooms by Jeff Zweirs