Communication

1. Theme: Distinctive features of communication: speaking
politely, ensuring coherence in words: hesitation and
pragmatic strategies (sentence completion or explanation)

2. What characteristics does your
communication have when it is clear concise
and coherent?
 Characteristics of Effective Communication
• Clear—main ideas easily identified and understood.
• Concise—gets to the point without using unneeded
words or images.
• Concrete—includes specific examples or
explanations.
• Correct—in information, word choice, and grammar.
• Coherent—information presented in a logical
sequence.

3. What is coherence in communication skills?
 The term coherence refers to the smooth flow of
ideas in a text. There are two main strategies that
will make your writing coherent: organizing your
ideas in a logical order, and connecting them
effectively by using transition words and phrases.
 What are the features of correct
communication?
 For communication to be effective, it must be clear,
correct, complete, concise, and compassionate. We
consider these to be the 5 C's of communication,
though they may vary depending on who you're
asking.

4. What are the 7 features of communication
with meaning?
 Use the 7 Cs of Communication as a checklist for all
of your communication. By doing this, you'll
stay clear, concise, concrete, correct, coherent,
complete, and courteous.
 What are the features of coherence?
 Coherence encompassed six main features, most of
which will be discussed below. These
are conventions, consistency, cohesion, logical
ordering, inference, and formatting.

5. What are the characteristics of effective
communication?
• Clarity.
• Conciseness.
• Correctness.
• Completeness.
• Coherence.
• Consideration.
• Courtesy.
• Concreteness.

6. What are coherence words?
 Common Transitional Words and Phrases
Adding Ideas: again, also, and, and then, as well as,
besides, equally important, finally, first (second,
third, etc.), for one thing, further, furthermore, in
addition, in the first place, last, likewise, more,
moreover, next, nor, similarly, too.

7. What is hesitation in linguistics?
 A hesitation marker is a linguistic form that appears
in environments in which speakers have difficulties
in retrieving lexical information during speech
production. Wiese (1984), for example, mentions
filled pauses (e.g., uh, mhm), repetitions, corrections
and drawls.

8. What are the hesitation markers in English?
 You can easily recognize and identify common
hesitation markers used in spoken English,
including um, uh, well, sort of (sorta), kind of (kinda),
like, actually, so and you know (ya know). Students
use hesitation markers to improve fluency and
confidence when making impromptu speeches on
unfamiliar topics.

9. What is hesitation in a sentence?
 A moment's hesitation could have cost him his
life. He showed no hesitation about/over accepting
the job.
 What are the types of hesitation?
 IELTS Speaking: two types of hesitation
• Language-related hesitation: the candidate pauses
because he/she is struggling with vocabulary or
grammar.
• Content-related hesitation: the candidate pauses to
think about his/her answer to the question.

10. Thank you for your attention