Oral communication

Communication status
Communication status
Questions
What is good communication?
Communicative strategy

Communicative Strategies are plans, ways, or means of sharing information

which are adopted to achieve a particular social, political, psychological, or
linguistic purpose.

The use of Communicative Strategies is the hallmark of communicative

competence.

- The strategies may vary to the need, situation or speaker.

Types of communicative strategy

1. Nomination
This is the speaker’s strategy in establishing a collaborative conversation by
opening a subject.
Commonly to employ this strategy without prior conversation, the speaker
frequently asks questions, tell some current news or announcements that would
require his/her listener to respond and have a good start for a conversation.

EXAMPLE: “Have you noticed the weird weather lately? Is this because of
global warming?”
Types of communicative strategy

2. Restriction
- Refers to any limitation you have as a speaker.
This strategy limits the speaker’s content of what to say – mostly only those
that are relevant to the topic presented

Example: That arrest move was a disaster waiting to happen. Do you agree?
(Yes/No)
Types of communicative strategy

3. Turn-taking
To make communication be organized and all ideas are well-facilitated,
people in the circle must be given equal opportunities to present their
ideas during the conversation.

Example: 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.
Types of communicative strategy

4. Topic control
- Is a communicative strategy used to control and prevent unnecessary
interruptions and topic shifts in a certain conversation.
- Considers as procedural formality or informality that affects the
development of certain topics in particular discussion or conversation.

Example “Let's go back to the topic.” “We are talking about communication
here right?”
Types of communicative strategy

5. Topic Shifting
- Is a diversionary tactic in which one person in a discussion (the
shifter) manages to subtly change the discussion’s topic to another,
related but different topic without explicitly announcing the change
of subject or reaching any kind of mutual agreement that such a
change is appropriate.

Example: "What were you talking a while ago?" "You have point with
that. But aren't we going to talk about your vacation?"
Types of communicative strategy

6. Repair
- Refers to how speakers address problems in speaking, listening and comprehending that they may
encounter in a conversation.
Repair is self-righting mechanism in any social interaction.

Examples:
• Let me rephrase that.
• Let me say that again.
• Let me see if I can say that more clearly.
• Let me restate that.
• Let me put it a different way.
Types of communicative strategy

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.

P1: So that’s it for our plans in the upcoming Student Council elections.
P2: Yes.
P3: Okay, all done.
P4: Finished.
P1: See you in class.
P2, P3, P4: See you later.
There are Seven Types of Communicative Strategies:

Nomination – presenting a particular topic clearly, truthfully, and saying only what is
relevant;

Restriction – constraining the response/reaction within a set of categories;

Turn-taking – recognizing when and how to speak because it is one’s turn;

Topic control – keeping the interaction going by asking questions and eliciting a response;

Topic shifting – introducing a new topic followed by the continuation of that topic;

Repair – overcoming communication breakdown to send more comprehensible messages;

and

Termination – using verbal and nonverbal signals to end the interaction.

PUT YOUR FINGER DOWN

1. Put a finger down if you often start the conversation on your

group chat.
2. Put a finger down if you replied wrongly on a chat/ text
message due to tiredness.
3. Put a finger down if you have tried solving misunderstanding
between friends.
4. Put a finger down if you were shut up in a conversation.
5. Put a finger down if you often greet people using foreign
language except English.
Rest-pond!

Direction: Respond to the following statement.

1. “One of the essential lessons I gained from the discussion is

the importance of sports and wellness to a healthy lifestyle.”

2. “Have you heard the news about the latest achievement of our
government?”

3. “Hey, how are you? I missed you!”

How do you initiate conversations with other people?