Communicative Strategy for Oral Comm.pdf

A short presentation with quiz/assessment

1. Techniques in
Conveying your
Message
ORAL COMM

2. UNDERSTANDING
ORAL COMM
Managing a conversation begins with a topic. Participants
thereafter, take turns in sharing their ideas and opinions on the
topic. During the discussion, participants may veer away from the
topic, monopolize the discussion, or bring up another topic. Most
people, however, restrict the discussion to the topic.
These usual events that take place
in a speech are all part of the
speaker’s management skills and
communicative techniques or
strategies.

3. NOMINATIVE
EXAMPLES
A speaker carries out nominations 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.
“Have you noticed the weird weather lately? Is this
because of global warming?”
“I was late for class again! The MRT stopped midway.
What is wrong with the MRT?”
ORAL COMM

4. RESTRICTION
EXAMPLES
Restriction Communicative Strategy is a strategy that constrains or restricts
the Response of the other person involved in the Communication Situation.
The Listener is forced to respond only within a set of categories that is made by
the Speaker.
“They say that the Philippine economy is getting better. Only the
stupid think that, right?” (No one wants to be stupid.)
“That arrest move was a disaster waiting to happen.
Do you agree?” (Yes/No)
ORAL COMM

5. TURN-TAKING
EXAMPLES
Turn-taking Communicative Strategy requires that each Speaker speaks only
when it is his/her turn during an interaction. Turn-taking Communicative
Strategy uses either an informal approach (just jump in and start talking) or a
formal approach (permission to speak is requested).
“I agree with the point just made. But may l add that OFWs would rather
be home and work here so they could be with their families.”.
“May I have the floor, sir? The topic under discussion is the
state of the Philippine economy today. We want better
lives for all Filipinos, whether they are working here or
abroad”.
ORAL COMM

6. TOPIC CONTROL
EXAMPLES
After the Nomination Communicative Strategy, the interaction is kept going by
using the Topic-Control Communicative Strategy. This is simply a question-
answer formula that moves the discussion forward. This also allows the
Listener or the other participants to take turns, contribute ideas, and continue
the discussion.
“How often do you ride the MRT, Tony? How many times have you
encountered a stoppage in service?”
ORAL COMM

7. TOPIC SHIFTING
EXAMPLES
Topic-Shifting Communicative-Strategy is the strategy that is useful in
introducing another topic. This Strategy works best when there is follow-
through so that a new topic continues to be discussed. This is also used in
Repair Communicative Strategy.
“This is a battle with corporations that continue to pollute the
environment. But this is also a battle with man himself, who
continues to act as if there is another Earth we can move to once
this Earth dies”.
ORAL COMM

8. REPAIR
We have already learned that communication almost always breaks down. When
miscommunication occurs, one can apply the Repair Communicative Strategy that
includes requesting clarification, not acknowledging, topic shifting, not responding,
repeating, recasting, and adding. One requests clarification by asking questions or
using eyebrows, eyes, head, or shoulders to show that the Message could not be
understood. By not acknowledging the new situation, the situation already in
progress will continue. Topic shifting can help direct the discussion to another
topic or divert the attention of the Listener from the topic that has become
problematic.
ORAL COMM
Repeating is a good way of correcting oneself and gives
the Speaker time to do just that. Recasting means
changing the form of a Message that could not be
understood. It allows the Speaker to say the Message in
another way so that the Listener can understand what
was originally incomprehensible.

9. TERMINATION
Termination Communicative Strategy ends the interaction through verbal and
nonverbal Messages that both Speaker and Listener send to each other.
Sometimes the Termination is quick and short. Sometimes it is prolonged by
clarifications, further questions, or the continuation of the topic already
discussed, but the point of the language and body movement is to end the
communication.
ORAL COMM