Communication Strategies

Why do People communicate?

  • To Maintain and establish a relationship
  • To find meaning in what they do daily
  • To know oneself

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Note: Successful communication requires understanding, but sometimes we encounter problems because of different factors.

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Communicative Strategies

  • These are language learners ==use to overcome communication problems== in order for them to convey their intended meaning.

  • According to Cohen 1990, Communicative Strategies must be used to start and keep the conversation going.

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TYPES OF COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES:

  1. Nomination

    • Proposing or Suggesting a topic with the people you are communicating to.
    • It is the Beginning or Opening of a conversation.
  2. Restriction

    • Limiting the topic or subject in conversation.
    • This only happens when the person wants to focus on a certain aspect of the topic being discussed due to some limiting factors.
  3. Turn-Taking

    • People decide who will take the conversation floor.

    • Allowing others to speak.

      Turn-Taking Strategies:

      • Speak, then ask
      • Use conjunctions
      • Avoid interruptions
      • Consider fluency over accuracy

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  4. Topic Control

    • regulating or manipulating the topic of the conversation and how long we want the other person may talk.
  5. Topic Shifting

    • Changing the subject in a conversation, moving from one topic to another.
    • done without announcing the change of the topic and keeping the communication.
  6. Repair

    • The correction by the speaker of a misunderstood utterance.
    • How the speaker addresses the problems in speaking, listening, and comprehending that they may encounter in a conversation.

4 Varieties of Repair Sequence

  1. Self-Initiated and Self Repair
    • both initiated and carried out by the speaker.
  2. Other-Initiated and Self-Repair
    • initiated by the recipient, the repair is carried out by the speaker.
  3. Self-Initiated and Other Repair
    • speaker initiated the receiver to repair the trouble.
  4. Other-Initiated and Other-Repair
    • receiver initiates and carries out the trouble

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  1. Termination
    • ending the conversation or closing up a discussion
    • refers to the conversation participant’s close initiating expressions that end a topic in a conversation.

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