José from Mexico is having a telephone conversation with Paul in New York to discuss an important project. José is asking Paul t
o complete the project by the end of the week in Spanish. Paul, who is not fluent in Spanish, assumes that José wants the project completed by the end of the month. What type of barrier to effective communication does the above example exemplify? (blank) is acting as a barrier to effective communication in the conversation between José and Paul.
The <em>language barrier </em>is the impediment of a set of parties in a conversation to come to an understading in clarity due to the parties' inability to communicate in a common language or dialect.
Since José provides Paul with instructions in Spanish (a language he barely speaks), Paul fails to fully understand a crucial message in José's speech. This is an example of a language barrier.
