COMMUNICATION STRATEGY in Oral Communication in Context.pptx

Communicative strategies

1. Objectives: Distinguish various types of communicative strategies; Use acceptable, polite, and meaningful communicative strategies; Engage in a communicative situation; Explain the effects of a shift in communicative strategy; Demonstrate effective use of communicative strategy in a variety of speech situations; Practice learning and thinking skills, life skills, and ICT literacy; and Reflect on your learning on the types of communicative strategy.

2. Types of Communicative Strategy

3. 1. NOMINATION A speaker carries out nomination to collaboratively and productively establish a topic. Basically, when you employ this strategy, you try to open a topic with the people you are talking to. You may start of with news inquiries and news announcements. Keep the conversational environment open for opinions until the prior topic shuts down easily and initiates a smooth end.

4. Factors to be considered when thinking of a topic to discuss: Relevance - How relevance is the topic to your objectives or desired output? Objective – What is your objective in discussing the topic? Familiarity – How familiar are you and your audience about the topic?

5. 2. RESTRICTION Refers to any limitation you may have as a speaker. Limiting the conversation to a certain scope only contributes to the relevance of the communication. When communicating in the classroom, in a meeting, or while hanging out with your friends, you are typically given specific instructions that you must follow. These instructions confine you as a speaker and limit what you can say.

6. 3. Turn-taking The process by which people decide who takes the conversational floor. Give all communicators a chance to speak. Keep your words relevant and reasonably short. Be polite. Acknowledge others. “What do you think?” “You wanted to say something?”

7. 4. TOPIC C ONTROL Setting expectations, preparing an agenda, moderating and casting (delegating a person to speak). This only means that when a topic is initiated, it should be collectively developed by avoiding unnecessary interruptions and topic shifts.

8. 5. TOPIC SHIFTING Involves moving from one topic to another. Be intuitive. Make sure that the previous was nurtured enough to generate adequate views. Use conversational transitions, “By the way,”, “In addition to what you said”, “Which reminds me of”

9. 6. REPAIR How the speakers address the problems in speaking, listening, and comprehending that they may encounter in the conversation. Repair is a self-righting mechanism in any social interaction ( Schegloff et al, 1977). If there is a problem in understanding the conversation, speakers will always try to address and correct it.

10. Some ways to repair the conversation: Eliminating noise factors such as moving to a different location for better acoustics or turning the volume of audio devices down. Getting the attention of the listener and communicating face-to-face. Confirmation and checking for comprehension Clarification such as repetition, rephrasing, or simplification Changing the medium from oral to written or vice versa.

11. 7. TERMINATION Refers to the conversation participants’ close-initiating expressions that end a topic in a conversation. Most of the time, the topic initiator takes responsibility to signal the end of the discussion as well.

12. To ways to end the communication process: Verbal – saying phrases such as “I have to go”, “That’s it”, “It was nice talking to you,” Nonverbal – subtle cues such as standing up when you have been sitting down, constantly looking at an object you need to go back to, or completely abandoning a face-to-face interaction. Note: BE POLITE !!