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Oral QUARTER WEEK

SUBJECT &
Communication DAY
GRADE/LEVEL
Grade 11 2 8 _____________
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TOPIC COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGY
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LEARNING
EN11/12OC-IIab-21 1) Know and learn the types of communicative strategies
COMPETENCY
EN11/12OC-IIab-22 2) Explain and discuss each strategy
IMPORTANT: Do not write anything on this material.
Write your answers on the Answer Sheets provided separately.

UNDERSTAND
Topic Title : Types of Communicative Strategy

Topics for Reading

The use of Communicative Strategies is the hallmark of communicative competence. Being able to use
such strategies makes certain not only the achievement of the Speech Purpose but also the enrichment
of the experience for both speaker and listener. More than making interaction possible, communicative
strategies when used by the speaker and (sometimes the listener) allow for the adjustment of the
message and its delivery. Of course, such strategies are employed within specific speech contexts using a
combination of speech styles and speech acts.

Communicative Strategies are plans, ways and means of sharing information which are adopted to
achieve a particular social, political, psychological or linguistic purposes. They are the blueprints for how
communication will be exchanged. Effective use of these strategies results to effective communicative
competence

Seven (7) Types of Communicative Strategies :

1) Nomination

- presents a particular topic clearly, truthfully and saying only what is relevant. It is the ability of
taking the attention of the listeners or hearers and trying to commence, nominate or propose
the speaker’s ideas in a conversation whereby the other people involved in the conversation
can still talk or even butt into the discussion.

2) Restriction
 - contains the response or reaction within a set of categories. This involves a constrained
conversation between a speaker and a listener. It is a communication where a person speaks
and the others listen without any chances for the listeners to be heard. For instance, a homily
of a priest in a mass, a commencement speech during a graduation ceremony, a speech of a
mayoralty candidate during a proclamation rally

3) Turn-Taking

- recognizes when and how a speaker to speak because it is one’s turn to speak. This refers to
the process by which people of conversation decide who is to speak next. Rules on this
depend on culture, norms, standards or mechanics set. A parliamentary debate, for instance,
established rules so that debaters do not raise points at the same time. Also, husband and
wife take turn in saying their marriage vows. Among task-oriented Americans, a silence
means it is the other party’s turn to speak.

4) Topic Control

- keeps the interaction going by asking questions and eliciting a response. The speaker is
required to speak only about a given topic. For instance, in a debate, parliamentary
constructive speakers of the affirmative side are compelled to argue why they are in favour of
proposition given. They cannot speak why they oppose it. In effect, their discourse is
controlled.

- another example is classroom reporting. As part of their academic activities, students are
expected to do classroom reporting on topics predetermined or assigned by the teacher.
Different groups take turn to make the report. Classroom reporting illustrates turn-taking and
topic control as communicative strategies.

5) Topic Shifting

- introduces a new topic followed by the continuation of that topic. In here the speaker needs to
change the subject matter being talked about. This includes the ability of a speaker to
prudently and courteously end a conversation about a topic and lead the talk to another issue.

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 - For instance, a job interviewer is obligated to ask varied types of questions, thus, he/she
needs to know how to shift from asking about the applicant’s past work experiences to
scholastic records to personal concerns to other matters. Also, a panel discussion moderator
must also be knowledgeable on how to do a topic swing.

6) Repair

- Overcomes communication breakdown to send more comprehensible messages. This

strategy comes in, for example, in the middle of a conversation, miscommunications or
misarticulating are likely to happen. The ability to ensure that these troubles don’t cause the
interaction to stop, the inter subjectivity to be distorted and the turn and sequence of the
exchange to fail.

- This communicative strategy is classified into two: self-initiated and other-initiated. The former
includes corrections made by the speaker himself/herself. This is without prompting from the
listeners. The latter involves repairs from the speaker because of the query from interlocutors
or other people.

7) Termination

- uses verbal or non-verbal signals to end the interaction. This is a communicative strategy of
artistically ending a conversation. It refers to practices of closing down a topic. Aside from
gestures like looking at the cell phone or wrist watch, yawning, or looking somewhere else,
terminating a topic uses either direct strategies or indirect strategies

REMEMBER
KEY POINTS
1. The use of Communicative Strategies is the hallmark of communicative competence.

2. Termination uses verbal or non-verbal signals to end the interaction.

3. Communicative strategies are plans, ways and means of sharing information.

4. Topic Control keeps the interaction going by asking questions and eliciting a response.

5. Repair overcomes communication breakdown to send more comprehensible messages.

6. Nomination presents a particular topic clearly, truthfully and saying only what is relevant.

7. Topic Shifting introduces a new topic followed by the continuation of that topic.

8. Topic Control keeps the interaction going by asking questions and eliciting a response.

9. Turn-Taking recognizes when and how a speaker to speak because it is one’s turn to speak.

10. Communicative strategies are the blueprints for how communication will be exchanged.

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 Upon completion of this work, do not forget to submit your answer sheets
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS to your Professor to assess and check your work, and, ultimately, be
graded. Then, get another Module.

Jose Rizal O. Dapat, Oral Communication in Focus, Published by Lori Mar

Bryan Eli B. Sadorra, Oral Communication in Focus, Published by Lori Mar
REFERENCE/S
Bethay Marie C. Lumabi, Oral Communication in Focus, Published by Lori Mar
Ramona S. Flores, Oral Communication in Context, Published by Rex Book Store

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Prepared by :

Dr. Teresita N. Torremonia

Professor