LESSON 10: Communicative Strategies
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, the learners shall be able to:
1. Define what communicative strategy is.
2. Enumerate the types of communicative strategies.
3. Discuss each communicative strategy.
Communicative Strategy
These are plans, ways or means of sharing information which are adopted to achieve a
particular social, political, psychological, or linguistic purpose.
Types of Communicative Strategy
1. Nomination- collaboratively and productively establish a topic.
2. Restriction- limitation you may have as a speaker.
3. Turn-taking- process by which people decide who takes the conversational floor
Seven Strategies in Turn Taking
a. Speak, then ask
b. Use conjunctions
c. Teach phrases for agreeing/ disagreeing
d. Teach phrases for asking for/ giving options
e. Teach fillers for pauses
f. Avoiding interruptions
g. Fluency over accuracy
4. Topic control- covers how procedural formality or informality affects the development
of topic in conversations.
Tips on how to Control a Conversation
a. Briefly answer the question, but quickly move to a message you’d like to give
b. Pose a new question and answer it yourself
c. Redirect the conversation to what you want to talk about
d. Stop talking
5. Topic shifting- involves moving from one topic to another.
6. Repair- refers to how speakers address the problems in speaking, listening and
comprehending that they may encounter in a conversation
Types of Repair Sequences
a. Self-initiated self-repair: Repair is both initiated and carried out by the speaker of
the trouble source.
b. Other-initiated self-repair: Repair is carried out by the speaker of the trouble
source but initiated by the recipient.
c. Self-initiated other-repair: The speaker of a trouble source may try and get the
recipient to repair the trouble--for instance if a name is proving troublesome to
remember.
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d. Other-initiated other-repair: The recipient of a trouble source turn both initiates
and carries out the repair. This is closest to what is conventionally called
'correction.'"
7. Termination- refers to the conversation participants’ close-initiating expressions that
end a topic in a conversation
Examples of Termination
1. Prolonged clarificatory statements
2. Further questions
3. Continuation of topic already discussed
Tips on How to Terminate a Conversation
Be Negative: Be generally negative and poor company.
Body pointing: Pointing your body away from the other person.
Caught short: Say you need to go to the toilet.
Closed questions: Create short answers.
Declare completion: Say that the conversation is ended.
Excuse yourself: Just excuse yourself and leave.
Feign ignorance: Be unable to answer their questions.
Introduce a friend: So, you can excuse yourself.
Out of time: Have another appointment.
Phone calls: Use the phone to call you away.
Procrastinating: Putting discussion off to another time.
Short answers: That give no reason to extend.
Slow down: De-accelerate to a standstill.
Spot a friend: Wave to a friend and go to see them.
Stand Up: Stand up as if to leave.
Summarize: Describe the essence of what has been said.
Further Readings:
https://www.slideshare.net/englishIT/communication-strategies-70782108
https://oralcom.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/types-of-communicative-strategy/
https://prezi.com/f1e1acwst7mt/types-of-communicative-strategies/
https://brainly.ph/question/427389
https://brainly.ph/question/1766068
https://busyteacher.org/20571-7-turn-taking-strategies-boost-student-speaking.html
https://www.cornerstone-ct.com/controlling-conversation/
https://prezi.com/qva4v4gue15u/topic-shifting/
https://www.thoughtco.com/repair-speech-1692044
https://brainly.ph/question/896672
http://changingminds.org/techniques/conversation/closing/closing.htm
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Exercise 10
Communicative Strategies
Name: _____________________________ Score: ______________________
Grade and Section: ___________________ Instructor: ___________________
Directions: Read the instructions and all the items in each test type carefully. Use blue or black
pen ink only. Avoid any form of erasure, alteration and superimposition on the final answer.
(Use another paper if necessary)
I. Identify the communication strategy applicable to the following utterances in
sentence form.
____________________ 1. What can you say, John?
____________________ 2. You may proceed to air pollution.
____________________ 3. We are going to report about pollution.
____________________ 4. What he means is chlorofluorocarbon.
____________________ 5. Why don’t you limit to the Philippine setting?
____________________ 6. In conclusion, we say that pollution is a global concern.
____________________ 7. The next reporter is Marsha.
____________________ 8. She will report about water pollution.
____________________ 9. Note that we are still discussing pollution.
____________________ 10. You are veering away from the topic. Let us not deviate
from it.
II. Read the sentences carefully and write the correct answer on the space provided
for.
____________________ 1. This refers to ending the conversation.
____________________ 2. It refers to changing the topic of conversation.
____________________ 3. This is a communication strategy in which the speaker
proposes a topic or issue that both participants want to
talk about.
____________________ 4. This refers to the correction of an utterance that is
misunderstood.
____________________ 5. It means regulating the topic of conversation and how
long we want the other person may talk.
____________________ 6. This repair is both initiated and carried out by the
speaker of the trouble source.
____________________ 7. One of its strategies is to teach fillers and pauses.
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____________________ 8. “I’ll send you an e-mail.” Is an expression used for
making follow-up.
____________________ 9. It refers to limiting the topic or subject in conversation.
____________________ 10. These expressions are used in this strategy-
nevertheless, however, as a result, on the contrary, as a
consequence, therefore, etc.
III. Among your classmates, form 5 groups and prepare a video presenting a panel
discussion role play on any of the topics below. Be able to apply the different
communication strategies that you learned: (Send the video on the email to be
provided by the teacher.)
A. Causes and Effects of Teenage Marriage
B. Importance of Family
C. Honesty is the best Policy
