ORAL COMMUNICATION (Quarter Two Week Three to Four))

1. ORAL
COMMUNICATION
Q1- W3 & W4

2. OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to do
the following:
1. distinguish various types of communicative
strategies;
2. use acceptable, polite, and meaningful
communicative strategies; and
3. reflect on your learning on the types of
communicative strategies.
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3. BIG QUESTION
What have we discussed
last meeting?
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4. communicative strategies

5. “People communicate with
different people to discuss
different topics in different
venues and situations.
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6. Big concept
One aspect of strategizing how
to communicate effectively is
through our ability to say the
right thing at the right place at
the right time to the right
people.
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7. Communicative
Competence

8. It is the ability to understand and use
language effectively to communicate in
authentic social and school environments.
Communicative COmpetence
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9. Communicative competence model
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Communicative
Competence
Grammatical
Competence
Discourse
Competence
Sociolinguistic
Competence
Strategic
Competence

10. Communicative competence model
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Communicative
Competence
The ability to
communicate
ideas with others
following the rules
of language.
The ability to link
ideas cohesively.
The ability to
adapt different
types of people
considering their
divers
background.
The ability to
adapt to different
situations and to
fix communication
breakdown when
it occurs.

11. Communicative strategies
Tarone (1980) defines COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES
as mutual attempts of at least two persons in a
communication process to agree on a meaning in
situations where requisite meaning strategies do not
seem to be shared.
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12. PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGIES
1. Achieviement Strategy
a. Code-Switching
b. Inter-language transfer
c. Inter-language based strategies
d. Cooperative strategy
e. Nonverbal strategy
2. Reduction Strategy
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13. Code-Switching
It is switching from First Language (L1) to Second
Language (L2).
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Example: I will not attend the meeting the meeting this
afternoon kasi I have to go home para maalagaan ko si
mommy.

14. Inter-language transfer
It is a strategy that concerns the use of first language
knowledge when it is absent or not known in second
language.
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Example: I felt kilig when I saw him.

15. Inter-language based strategies
By using IL system, learners may have several ways of
coping with communicative problems, such as
generalize, paraphrase, coin new words or restructure.
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16. Cooperative strategy
When there is a seemingly problematic communication
process going on, the listener and the speaker both
make attempts to solve it.
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17. Nonverbal strategy
This refers to what the speaker and even the listener use
to replace a lexical item or an action.
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18. The structure of conversation
1. Topic Initiation – the start of communication.
2. Topic Maintenance – the communicators exchange about the
topic initiated by the first speaker.
3. Topic Change – the speakers change or shift topics based on
group’s interest.
*Adjacency Pair – communication action that requires two
parts.
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19. Speaker A: Hi dude, I am celebrating my debut next Sunday
at Valle Verde Country Club around 4 pm. Please come as
one of my special guests.
Speaker B: Oh, I am glad to come to your debut. See you
soon then.
Speaker A: Thank you so much, friend. I am happy that you
could come.
Dialogue 1
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20. Dialogue 2
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21. COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:
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1. What is the topic in first dialogue? How about dialogue 2?
2. Who initiated in the topic in Dialogue 1? In Dialogue 2?
3. Is Dialogue 1 considered as adjacency pair? How about
Dialogue 2? How would you know if the Dialogue can be
considered as adjacency pair?
4. In Dialogue 2, what statement/s fall under topic
maintenance?
5. What is topic change in Dialogue 2?

22. TURN-TAKING
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This refers to the process of conversation wherein each
speaker waits for his/her turn to speak.
1. Turn-getting
2. Turn-keeping
3. Turn-yielding
4. Turn-accepting

23. Turn-getting
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This refers to the speaker’s attempt to get the floor
particularly if he/she has something to say.
Turn-keeping
This refers to the speaker’s attempt to use transitional
markers in order to keep the floor for himself. The use
of cohesive devices signal the listeners that the speaker
is not yet over on sharing his/her thoughts.

24. Turn-yielding
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This allows the speaker to give the floor to other persons
in the group.
Turn-accepting
Expresses one’s willingness to take the floor or be the
next speaker in a group communication.

25. Conversationalskills
1. Topic Nomination
2. Topic Restriction
3. Topic Control
4. Turn-Taking
5. Topic Shift
6. Repair
7. Termination
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26. Topic nomination
A communicative strategy of introducing a topic.
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27. Topic restriction
It is the process of limiting or narrowing down the topic.
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Topic CONTROL
This refers to the speaker who gains control of the topic.
Turn-taking
The process wherein the speaker take turn to speak one
at a time.
Topic shifting
The topic change which may be initiated by any of the
interactants without giving any clue of change.

28. repair
The process of correcting errors in communication.
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Types of repair
1. Self-initiated self-repair
2. Other-initiated self-repair
3. Self-initiated other-repair
4. Other-initiated other-repair

29. Self-initiated self-repair
The source (speaker) of the error who initiates the
correction to clarify his/her message.
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Other-initiated self-repair
Repair is done by the speaker of unclear message but is
initiated by the listener.
Self-initiated other-repair
The speaker of unclear message may try and request the
listener to repair the trouble.

30. Other-initiated other-repair
The recipient of unclear message who both initiates and
carries out the repair.
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31. termination
This is simply the end of conversation.
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