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Enhancing oral
interactive work in the
     FL classroom
Teaching communicative and
   negotiation strategies
       Patricia Ghivarello Stuessy
Breakdowns in communication


¿Qué comida de cena?
                               Em ….a las
                                 ocho




 OK




                BEN     KATE
Em ….at eight.
     What food of dinner?




OK




                BEN         KATE
Working collaboratively

Students in a FL or SL classroom can
be directed to help each other focus
on meaning and form after learning
         specific strategies.
Why?
     Strategic competence
      Verbal and nonverbal
 communication strategies that
 compensate for breakdowns in
communication due to insufficient
  grammatical or sociolinguistic
         competence
       (Canale & Swain, 1980)
Breakdowns in communication
           occur
          a) language form
        b) language meaning
  c) they lack strategies to keep the
          conversation going
  d) they lack strategies to make the
conversation meaningful for each other
• BREAKDOWN in
   communication
Types of Oral Strategies
I. Oral communicative strategies:
    strategies which help us to
keep the conversation going.

II. Oral negotiation strategies:
      strategies which help us to
focus on form and meaning, so that
real communication is possible.
(McDonough, 2004) (Nakatani, 2005)
I. ORAL COMMUNICATIVE
         STRATEGIES
1. Time-gaining strategies
2. Maintenance strategies
3. Help-seeking strategies
1. Time-gaining strategies

  Ehm, I like golf   Oh,    really
                           ?
Time-gaining expressions (using filler
expressions to gain time to think)


        really?                     de verdad?
    ¡Así!
        uhm, let me see             uhm, déjame
    ver…
        well…..
     bueno, vale….
        sure…..                      ¡Claro!
2. Maintenance strategies


 a. Make positive
remarks/comments
 b. Shadow
a.Make a positive comment or
                a remark
   - make a comment to keep the conversation
                      going

I don’t have a dog.             Oh, how sad.
a. Comments or remarks show interest
and keep the conversation going.


  I understand                 (entiendo)
  I see
    or, I see what you mean      (ya veo)
  Sounds good                (suena bien)

  Very good                      (muy
   bien)
b. Shadow
                by partially repeating
               what the partner has said

   I am from                          Oh ! Kenya
 Kenya, and my                             !
family is very big.
3. Help-seeking strategies
a. Ask for help
   I don’t understand
   What? What does XXX mean?
   How do you say XXX?
b. Ask for repetition
   Please repeat / can you repeat please?
c. Indicate there is a problem
   louder please
   I can’t hear you well
¿Uhm.. I was
                   Ask for help
….uhm, I was….

 ¿How do you
                                  born
  say XXXX?




      Oh, ok,
 ..I was born in
     Holland.
2 sets of strategies:

I. Oral communication strategies


II. Oral negotiation strategies
II.    ORAL NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES

  a. Clarification requests: one partner does not
     understand well and requests an explanation.
   A what? What did you say?
  b. Confirmation checks: the listener checks that
     he/she has understood his partner correctly.
   Did you say XXXX?
  c. Comprehension checks: to be sure our
     partner has understood us.
   Do you understand? Is it clear? Do you
    agree?

  (Oliver, 1998)
b. Confirmation check
  I
many
fren




                          You have
                            many
                          friends?


 (Pica et al., 1989)
c. Comprehension checks
               I have been to this
                new store LIBRO
                with my father, a
                   new store….
                     Do you
                  understand?



   Yes, the
    store is
   LIBRO.
d. Negotiation strategies, which
         focus on form:
Recast:       your partner corrects your
                       language
Me like                                     I like
 golf.                                       golf.



Yeah, I like
   golf.
Explicit Correction: you correct
   your partner by explaining what is
   wrong
                        You need DO
You get up               YOU before
  early?                  GET UP.




 DO YOU get up
     early?
Benefits
1. BETTER LISTENERS
2. MAINTAIN A CONVERSATION
in the target language
3. TO FOCUS ON MEANING, to
achieve a coherent conversation in the
target language
4. TO FOCUS ON FORM and achieve
modified output
Final comments from the
               literature

 Knowing about communicative and
 negotiation strategies may dispose
    the students to work in a more
 collaborative way, where both more
proficient and less proficient students
share more equally the role of expert.

(Storch, 2000)
Students participate in
constructing knowledge together
with the teacher and other peers


(Wells, 1999)
• Language learners are frequently and
  increasingly each other’s resources
  for language learning.
   (Pica et al. (1996)



• It is possible that they can also attend
  to form.
   (Long, 1996)
¡Gracias por escuchar!


  pstuessy@vis.ac.at

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Teaching oral communication strategies

  • 1. Enhancing oral interactive work in the FL classroom Teaching communicative and negotiation strategies Patricia Ghivarello Stuessy
  • 2. Breakdowns in communication ¿Qué comida de cena? Em ….a las ocho OK BEN KATE
  • 3. Em ….at eight. What food of dinner? OK BEN KATE
  • 4. Working collaboratively Students in a FL or SL classroom can be directed to help each other focus on meaning and form after learning specific strategies.
  • 5. Why? Strategic competence Verbal and nonverbal communication strategies that compensate for breakdowns in communication due to insufficient grammatical or sociolinguistic competence (Canale & Swain, 1980)
  • 6. Breakdowns in communication occur a) language form b) language meaning c) they lack strategies to keep the conversation going d) they lack strategies to make the conversation meaningful for each other
  • 7. • BREAKDOWN in communication
  • 8. Types of Oral Strategies I. Oral communicative strategies: strategies which help us to keep the conversation going. II. Oral negotiation strategies: strategies which help us to focus on form and meaning, so that real communication is possible. (McDonough, 2004) (Nakatani, 2005)
  • 9. I. ORAL COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES 1. Time-gaining strategies 2. Maintenance strategies 3. Help-seeking strategies
  • 10. 1. Time-gaining strategies Ehm, I like golf Oh, really ?
  • 11. Time-gaining expressions (using filler expressions to gain time to think)  really? de verdad? ¡Así!  uhm, let me see uhm, déjame ver…  well….. bueno, vale….  sure….. ¡Claro!
  • 12. 2. Maintenance strategies a. Make positive remarks/comments b. Shadow
  • 13. a.Make a positive comment or a remark - make a comment to keep the conversation going I don’t have a dog. Oh, how sad.
  • 14. a. Comments or remarks show interest and keep the conversation going.  I understand (entiendo)  I see or, I see what you mean (ya veo)  Sounds good (suena bien)  Very good (muy bien)
  • 15. b. Shadow by partially repeating what the partner has said I am from Oh ! Kenya Kenya, and my ! family is very big.
  • 16. 3. Help-seeking strategies a. Ask for help  I don’t understand  What? What does XXX mean?  How do you say XXX? b. Ask for repetition  Please repeat / can you repeat please? c. Indicate there is a problem  louder please  I can’t hear you well
  • 17. ¿Uhm.. I was Ask for help ….uhm, I was…. ¿How do you born say XXXX? Oh, ok, ..I was born in Holland.
  • 18. 2 sets of strategies: I. Oral communication strategies II. Oral negotiation strategies
  • 19. II. ORAL NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES a. Clarification requests: one partner does not understand well and requests an explanation.  A what? What did you say? b. Confirmation checks: the listener checks that he/she has understood his partner correctly.  Did you say XXXX? c. Comprehension checks: to be sure our partner has understood us.  Do you understand? Is it clear? Do you agree? (Oliver, 1998)
  • 20. b. Confirmation check I many fren You have many friends? (Pica et al., 1989)
  • 21. c. Comprehension checks I have been to this new store LIBRO with my father, a new store…. Do you understand? Yes, the store is LIBRO.
  • 22. d. Negotiation strategies, which focus on form: Recast: your partner corrects your language Me like I like golf. golf. Yeah, I like golf.
  • 23. Explicit Correction: you correct your partner by explaining what is wrong You need DO You get up YOU before early? GET UP. DO YOU get up early?
  • 24. Benefits 1. BETTER LISTENERS 2. MAINTAIN A CONVERSATION in the target language 3. TO FOCUS ON MEANING, to achieve a coherent conversation in the target language 4. TO FOCUS ON FORM and achieve modified output
  • 25. Final comments from the literature Knowing about communicative and negotiation strategies may dispose the students to work in a more collaborative way, where both more proficient and less proficient students share more equally the role of expert. (Storch, 2000)
  • 26. Students participate in constructing knowledge together with the teacher and other peers (Wells, 1999)
  • 27. • Language learners are frequently and increasingly each other’s resources for language learning. (Pica et al. (1996) • It is possible that they can also attend to form. (Long, 1996)
  • 28. ¡Gracias por escuchar! pstuessy@vis.ac.at

Editor's Notes

  1. This slide is in Spanish, but I will show you the translation in English in a few seconds. There are two students talking about what they nave done. This dialog is authentic, I heard this coming from two of my students some years ago
  2. These students are making mistakes, misunderstanding each other and accepting the misunderstandings without challenging each other. Research shows that Students often ignore breakdowns in communication in favor of task completion. I teach in an international environment and students come with many different language and cultural backgrounds. It is important to keep this in mind to understand why the girl perhaps did not understand her partner. So teaching students oral strategies come very handy and necessary.
  3. I frequently ask my students to work independently in small groups because in this way they have more chances to practice new structures, vocabulary, new situations and to become more fluent in the target language. It is good that they work alone because they can help each other learn the language. But for this to happen, our role as teachers is to teach our learners oral strategies as early as possible.
  4. Students learning a new language often lack strategic competence Communicative approaches to second language teaching and testing (1980) There are 3 components which are very component in the Communicative Approach: grammatical component, the sociolinguistic component and the strategic component.Very important if we are in an IB program is to emphasize the ATL : approaches to learning
  5. They occur at the level of Language forms: errors in grammar, in morphology They also occur at the level of Language meaning; lack of vocabulary. expressionsWhat we realize from these breakdowns is that students lack Strategies to keep the conversation going: They also lack strategies that can help them to gain time to think ; to think of how to proceed with the conversation, and/or to mend these breakdowns and go back to a meaningful conversation
  6. There is a clear breakdown in communication. There is a long pause and awkwardness.. They boy does not understand what the girl asked him. The girl does not really know what is the problem with what she is saying . They try a few things, which are good. What could have they done? The boy could have said WHAT DOES CUAL MEAN?
  7. Communicative strategies: are more related to the sociolinguistic aspect of communication (maintaining communication) They also provide learners with a sense of security in the target language when they experience communicative problems (Dornyei, 1995)Negotiation strategies: are more related to the language aspect of communication. Strategies or expressions used by the speakers to make each other focus on specific structures or words and to negotiate their meaning or grammar, and hopefully modify language to make it more correct.When we teach them comm. strategies we have to teach them a variety of expressions in the target language that they can use to maintain comm.
  8. Communicative strategies help the speakers to MAINTAIN COMMUNICATION and they give them a sense of security during the conversation. It helps them to have time to think, to avoid long awkward pauses and to ask for help. It helps them to STAY in the conversation, even if they cannot keep up with the topic of the conversation, because they can at least keep speaking in the target language. We, teachers, will provide them with certain expressions in the target language for this purpose.
  9. In this case, both are talking about what they like to do, but the second girl (red haired) needs time to come up with something to say to continue the conversation. She needs time to think, so she uses an expression.
  10. Some time-gaining expressions (some call them fillers) are these expressions in the target language which will help them to gain time to think.These expressions will help them to maintain the conversation. To avoid long pauses. We have to model them.
  11. These strategies use expression that will help the students to show interest in what their interlocutor is saying and at the same time maintain the conversation.
  12. The student is listening to his partner and making a remark before changing the topic. (The students begin to listen)
  13. These are example of possible expressions we can give and teach our students to use to show interest.
  14. b. Shadow to show that you are listening by partially repeating what the other had said. Shadowis useful when a student cannot come up with a comment or remark and so he can just take a segment of what his/her partner is saying and repeat it.
  15. This expressions should be in the target language that we teach. The important thing is for the student, is to develop and havea repertoir of expressions in the target language that they can use in any conversation, but we teachers have to provide it to them, We have to model themSo, if the students cannot follow or keep up with the topic of the dialog, they can still be in the conversation speaking in the target language using the expressions of that repertoir.
  16. So, teach them how to say HOW DO YOU SAY in french, german, spanish AND INSIST THAT THEY USE THEM.
  17. These strategies focus more on the language itself. They are used to negotiate meaning during a conversation when the message is not clear.In a CLARIFICATION REQUEST, the listener, who has not understood well, request an explanation. It is similar to ASK for HELP
  18. The listener checks that he has understood correctly a message, a word.In other words, Did you say XXXX? Or just paraphrase like in the example. Also, the girl might attempt to modify her output and say Many FRIENDS? (you want these modifications to occur)
  19. This strategy is used to make sure that our partner has understood what we are trying to say. The speaker checks that his partner is understanding him.
  20. Negotiation strategies work when we teachershighlightsthe importance of focusing on language and insitst to the learners that they have to help each other and correct each other
  21. 1. Working in small groups or pairs helps students to become better listeners, more attuned to their partners.2. Teaching oral language strategies help our students to know how to act or proceed when they encounter difficulties in a conversation, so that the conversation can be maintained.Learners can help each other to focus on forms (grammar structures). They can be good sources or knowledge for each other and point to mistakes.This happens when students change their speech, they make it more correct, in order to be understood by their partners.
  22. In part, these are ideas are based on The constructivism movement in education: is a cognitive approach to learning from the 20th century. It views the learner as actively involved in his/her own learning and making sense of the world through his/her thoughts and experiences. It allows for a more child-centered type of education.