TYPES OF

COMMUNICATIVE
STRATEGY
ORAL COMMUNICATION IN CONTEXT
LESSON
OBJECTIVE:
Distinguish various types of
communicative strategies

Use appropriate communicative

strategies
COMMUNICATION
STRATEGY
are BLUEPRINTS for HOW the information will be
exchanged

used by learners to overcome PROBLEMS in

CONVEYING INTENDED MEANING

effective use of these strategies results to

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Strategies must be used to START and MAINTAIN

conversation (Cohen, 1990)
7 TYPES OF
COMMUNCATIVE
STRATEGY
NOMINATION
the ability of taking the hearer's
attention, and commence or
propose the speaker's ideas in a
conversation
How do you start a
conversation?
RESTRICTION
a strategy the contrains and restricts the response of the
other person involved in the communication process

Listener is forced to respond only within a set of

categories that is made by the speaker
YES
or
NO?
TURN - TAKING
a process by which people in a conversation decide who
is to speak next

Knowing when to talk depends on watching out for the

verbal and nonverbal cues that the previous speaker is
finished or that the conversation has introduced a new
topic
TOPIC CONTROL
instances when a conversation is bound only to given
issues or topic

This covers how procedural formality or informality

affects the development of topic in conversations
TOPIC SHIFTING
used to avoid a conversation or a certain issue without
explicitly announcing the change of subject or reaching
any kind of mutual agreement that such a change is
appropriate.
How do
you
smoothly
change the
topic?
REPAIR
asking for clarification, not acknowledging, topic shifting,
not responding, repeating, recasting and adding
we use both verbal and nonverbal cues
TERMINATION

refers to practices of closing down the topic or

conversation
we use both verbal and nonverbal cues
What are your
take-aways from
the lesson?
THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
ACTIVE
PARTICIPATION

-MS. FATIMA ABUNDO-