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Scribd 7
Department of Education
Region VII, Central Visayas
Division of Cebu Province
Code EN11/12OC-IIab-21
I. OBJECTIVES
A. Knowledge Distinguish various types of communicative strategy.
B. Skills Engage in a communicative situation.
C. Attitude Use acceptable, polite and meaningful communicative strategy.
D. Values Display willingness to learn the lesson through participation in any group activity.
II. SUBJECT MATTER
A. Content Types of Communicative Strategy
B. Learning Laptop, Power Point presentation, DLP, MELC,TV,
Resources Pictures, Worksheets
III. PROCEDURES
3.2. Activity / Strategy Directions: Describe the different conversations you are usually engaged in. Use
(5 minutes) complete sentences for your answers.
3.3. Analysis Direction: Describe your experiences in communicating with other people by
(5 minutes) answering the questions below.
1. How do you usually start a conversation?
2. What are the problems that you had encountered during a conversation and how
did you address them?
3. Have you experienced engaging in a conversation with a topic that you are not
comfortable with? How did you manage it?
3.4. Abstraction “The teacher will discuss the Types of Communicative Strategy.”
(15 minutes)
Types of Communicative Strategy
The following are some strategies that people use when communicating:
1. Nomination
A speaker carries out nomination to collaboratively and productively establish
a topic.
You use this strategy to open a topic and start a conversation. Nomination is
usually employed at the beginning of interaction to set the purpose of conversation.
Examples:
You may start off with making inquiries, giving compliment, asking for opinion, or
offering help. This could efficiently signal the beginning of a new topic in the
conversation.
“Have you heard about “the new normal”?
“I saw your TikTok post on Facebook. It’s really great.”
“What can you say about our new plan for the project? Do you think it will
work?”
You are the new student, right? Would you like me to tour you around the
campus?
REMEMBER: Avoid questions that are too personal like asking about how much
money the person or his parents are earning. This may make the person you are
talking to uncomfortable and may refuse to talk with you. Topics like politics and
religion should also be avoided because these may cause quarrel or disagreement.
2. Restriction
Restriction in communication refers to any limitation you may have as a
speaker.
It is a strategy used when responses need to be within the set categories or
instructions. These instructions confine you as a speaker and limit what you can
say.
Examples:
In your class, you might be asked by your teacher to brainstorm on peer
pressure or deliver a speech on digital natives. In this case, you cannot decide
to talk about something else.
You are invited to the police station to answer some questions about what you
know about the accident.
3. Turn-taking
It pertains to the process by which people decide who takes the
conversational floor.
Turn-taking strategy allows all participants in the conversation a chance to
speak. You can use this strategy to avoid taking over the whole conversation.
Examples:
You can employ this strategy by making your response shorter yet informative
enough to express your ideas and feelings.
Spoken cues such as “What do you think?” or “You wanted to say
something?” provide others a chance to speak. Pausing is a nonverbal cue
that will do as well.
REMEMBER: Listen to the other person talking instead of just waiting for your turn
to talk. This way, you can have a meaningful and productive conversation. Also,
always show politeness when you need to take the conversational floor from the
person currently speaking.
4. Topic Control
Topic control covers how procedural formality or informality affects the
development of topic in conversations.
This is a strategy used when there is a need to control and prevent
unnecessary interruptions and topic shifts in a certain conversation. Using this
strategy makes the conversation to stay focused on the topic throughout the
discussion and keeps the development of the topic going by asking questions.
Examples:
During a board meeting, the director manages the communication and directs
who may speak to collectively develop the topic of conversation.
In the senate session, the senate president presides the meeting. Senators
who wish to speak asks permission to the senate president.
Expressions like “Okay, so much for that… “Let's go back to the topic.”
and “Going back to what we are talking about…” can be used to keep the
conversation within the topic when there is a sudden shift.
5. Topic Shifting
Topic shifting involves moving from one topic to another.
This strategy is used to change the topic to a new one which helps
communication keep going.
Examples:
You may use conversational transitions that indicate a shift like “By the
way...”, “Before I forget...”, “Which reminds me of,” and the like.
In a report presentation you may use expressions like “Moving on to the next
topic…”, “Now, let’s talk about…”, “This time, let me tell you about…”
REMEMBER: Topic shifting requires a good timing. So, make sure that topic is
adequately discussed before changing it to another one. There may be a need to
shift topic when there’s a pause in conversation, minimal response like nodding and
smiling.
6. Repair
Repair refers to how speakers address the problems in speaking, listening,
and comprehending that they encounter in a conversation.
Repair is the self-righting mechanism in any social interaction (Schegloff et. al,
1977). We can employ this strategy whenever we encounter problems in
communication to prevent a breakdown.
Examples:
Speaker may use recasting or changing the form of message to a more
understandable one using the following expressions:
“What I mean is….”
“What I am trying to say is that…”
The speaker may repeat his/her statements using the following expressions:
“Let me repeat myself.”
“Again…”
“I would like to reiterate that…”
7. Termination
Termination refers to the conversation participants’ close-initiating expressions
that end a topic in a conversation.
This strategy is used to end an interaction or close a topic. Most of the time,
the topic initiator or the person who opened the topic takes responsibility to signal
the end of the discussion as well.
Examples:
You may use the following expressions to end a conversation:
“It’s nice catching up with you. I must be going.”
“Thanks for your time. See you around.”
“Regards to your wife. See you soon.”
In other situation, you may end the topic by sharing what you learned from the
conversation.
3.5. Application What are the different types of communicative strategy? Let us recall them by
(15 minutes) completing the concept map below.
II. Identification.
Directions: Identify the type of communicative strategy evident in each statement.
Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
___________6. “Ok goodbye! See you around.”
___________7. “Hello, I guess you are familiar. Have we met before?”
___________8. “Anyone, who is not in favor of my idea?
___________9. “May I request everybody to be quiet so we can proceed to the next
part of our discussion?”
___________10. “Sorry but can you repeat your question?”
___________11. “That was an excellent solution to resolve this issue.”
___________12. “Do you have any clarification about our contingency plan this
school year?”
___________13. “The president will lead the meeting and then the secretary will
write the minutes.”
___________14. “In addition, to what you have said, I think we should also
assure the safety of our learners in times like this.”
___________15. “The rules only specified in the ordinance will be followed.”
3.7. Assignment
(3 minutes)
3.8. Wrap-Up/ Concluding What factors influence the choice of different communicative strategies in various
Activity contexts, and how do they impact the effectiveness of communication?
(2 minutes)
“Each student will be given a chance to give their thoughts and share it in class.
Feedbacking will follow.”
1. Remarks
2. Reflection
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