This document discusses the "Put A Finger Down" activity commonly seen on TikTok. It involves holding your hands up and putting a finger down for each statement that applies to you, as a way to measure experiences in your life. Several examples of statements are given, such as starting group chats, responding incorrectly due to tiredness, and trying to solve misunderstandings between friends. The document then lists types of communicative strategies defined by Cohen (1990), including nomination, restriction, turn-taking, topic control, topic shifting, repair, and termination. Each strategy is briefly defined and an example is given.
3. Put A Finger Down is a
popular challenge on TikTok.
How is it done? Make your
hands in a hold up position.
If you have done what is
stated, you put a finger
down. It is like a way of
measuring how many things
you have done in your life.
4. 1. Put a finger down if
you often start the
conversation on your
group chat.
5. 2. Put a finger down
if you replied
wrongly on a chat/
text message due to
tiredness.
6. 3. Put a finger down
if you have tried
solving
misunderstanding
between friends.
7. 3. Put a finger down
if you have tried
solving
misunderstanding
between friends.
8. 4. Put a finger down
if you were shut up
in a conversation.
9. 5. Put a finger down
if you often greet
people using foreign
language except
English.
14. Nomination
This strategy is used to open or establish a
topic in a conversation.
Example:
I read from the newspaper that COVID-19
vaccination has started in United Kingdom.
15. Restriction
It refers to any limitation you may have as a
speaker. In communication, you are
restricted to follow instructions and you
have limited things you can say.
Example:
Discuss the Pythagorean Theorem. .
16. Turn- taking
It refers to the process by which people
decide who takes the conversational floor.
Example:
Anything to comment about his idea about
digital learning?
17. Topic Control
Topic control covers how procedural
formality or informality affects the
development of topic in conversations.
Example:
You can only talk in a meeting if you are
recognized by the presider.
18. Topic Shifting
It involves moving from one topic to another.
Example:
Speaker 1: I love Ben & Ben’s “Lifetime” song. It is pleasing to the
ears.
Speaker 2: I agree. By the way, IV of Spades decided to have
hiatus. I really miss their music.
Speaker: Me too.
19. Repair
It refers to how speakers address the problems in
speaking, listening, and comprehending that they
may encounter in a conversation.
Example:
I cannot understand what your classmate is saying.
Please mute your microphone.
20. Termination
Termination refers to the conversation participants’
close- initiating expressions that end a topic in a
conversation.
Example:
I enjoyed talking with you. Maybe we can continue
our conversation tomorrow.
