Unit 3 - Lesson 4

Unit 3 - Lesson 4

Communicative Strategies

FEU PRAYER

Direct, O God we beseech You,

All our actions by Your Holy inspiration

And help them on by Your gracious assistance,

So that every prayer and work of ours,

May begin with You, and by You be happily ended.

Amen.

At the end of the lesson, students shall:

• Engage in a communicative situation using acceptable, polite and meaningful communicative strategies ​

• Explain that a shift in speech context, speech style, speech act and communicative strategy affects the following :

  -Language form -Duration of interaction ​ -Relationship of speaker ​ -Role and responsibilities of the speaker ​ -Message ​ -Delivery ​

Poll

How are you feeling today?

• Sleepy (stayed up all night watching Netflix/playing video games)

• HAngry (Hungry+Angry)

• Excited to learn! (I LOVE STUDYING!!!)

• Meh.

• Happy (good mood)

Communicative Strategies

are steps that we use in order to succeed in ACHIEVING THE PURPOSE of our speech/communication

Topic Initiation

introducing or giving an idea to start a conversation

Poll

POLL: On your first day as a college student, you saw your CRUSH seated in front of you! You're not sure if he/she recognized you since you only spent 2 years as online classmates. How would you start a conversation?

• Throw a crumpled paper with a note written inside

• Say HI and tell them you were classmates before; ask them if they remember you

• Transfer to the seat next to them and bother them tirelessly

• Ask if they have an extra pen/yellow paper

• Nothing. Just let them notice you on their own.

Turn-taking

Sacks et al (1974) explains turn-taking as follows:

“It is a systematic consequence of the turn-taking organization of conversation that it obliges its participants to display to each other, in a turn’s talk, their understanding of other turns’ talk, unless special techniques are used to locate some other talk to which it is directed.”

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT appropriate when taking turns in a conversation?

• waiting for your turn to speak while smiling/nodding

• listening attentively to the person who's talking

• texts/chats on your phone while someone else is still speaking since it's not yet your turn

• responding with a relevant response to what the speaker before you said

Topic Management

• Topicalization

• Preferred Responses

• Repetition

Topic Shifting

also known as "topic transition"; moving on from a current topic to a new one

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST way to change a topic?

• "I am tired of listening to your stories, let's talk about mine."

• "Oh, I see. That must've been painful. Speaking of pain..."

• "Oh, is that it? I thought you were going to say something interesting. Now let's talk about..."

• "I can totally relate. Random trivia, did you know that M&M actually stands for Mars and Murrie?!"

Repair

solving problems such as errors or mistakes while talking; different from CORRECTION (replacing what you said, not clarifying)

Termination

process of ending a conversation

Poll

How do you normally end a conversation?

• K.

• Seenzone.

• That was fun. Talk to you soon!

• Kain lang ako. / Antok na 'ko.

• HAHAHA