ORAL COMMUNICATION
IN CONTEXT
Core Subject Description:
The development of listening and speaking skills and strategies for
effective communication in various situations.
WHAT’S NEW?
DIRECTIONS: Describe the different conversations
you are usually engaged in. Use complete sentences
for your answers.
HOME
Or
WHAT’S NEW?
DIRECTIONS: Describe the different conversations
you are usually engaged in. Use complete sentences
for your answers.
SCHOOL
Or
WHAT’S NEW?
DIRECTIONS: Describe the different conversations
you are usually engaged in. Use complete sentences
for your answers.
COMMUNITY
Or
QUESTIONS
DIRECTIONS: Describe your experiences in
communicating with other people by answering the
questions below.
How do you usually start a conversation?
What are the problems that you had encountered
during a conversation and how did you address
them?
Have you experienced engaging in a conversation
with a topic that you are not comfortable with?
How did you manage it?
Or
COMMUNICATIVE
STRATREGIES
NOMINATION
A speaker carries out nomination to
collaboratively and productively establish a
topic.
You use this strategy to open a topic and start a
conversation. Nomination is usually employed at
the beginning of interaction to set the purpose of
conversation.
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NOMINATION
You may start off with making inquiries, giving
compliment, asking for opinion, or offering
help. This could efficiently signal the
beginning of a new topic in the conversation.
Example:
“What can you say about our new plan for the
project? Do you think it will work?”
Or
RESTRICTION
Restriction in communication refers to any
limitation you may have as a speaker.
It is a strategy used when responses need to be
within the set categories or instructions. These
instructions confine you as a speaker and limit
what you can say.
Or
TURN-TAKING
It pertains to the process by which people
decide who takes the conversational floor.
Turn-taking strategy allows all participants in the
conversation a chance to speak. You can use this
strategy to avoid taking over the whole
conversation.
Or
TOPIC CONTROL
Topic control covers how procedural
formality, or informality affects the
development of topic in conversations.
This is a strategy used when there is a need to
control and prevent unnecessary interruptions and
topic shifts in a certain conversation. Using this
strategy makes the conversation to stay focused
on the topic throughout the discussion and keeps
the development of the topic going by asking
questions.
Or
TOPIC SHIFTING
Topic shifting involves moving from one
topic to another.
Remember that topic shifting requires a good
timing. So, make sure that the topic is adequately
discussed before changing it to another one. There
may bea need to shift topic when there is a pause
in conversation, minimal response like nodding and
smiling.
Or
REPAIR
Repair is the self-righting mechanism in any
social interaction (Schegloff [Link], 1977). We
can employ this strategy whenever we
encounter problems in communication to
prevent a breakdown.
Repair may also include addressing physical and
physiological issues affecting communication.
REPAIR
Speaker may use recasting or changing the
form of message to a more understandable
one using the following expressions:
• “What I mean is....”
• “What I am trying to say is that...”
REPAIR
The speaker may repeat his/her statements
using the following expressions:
• “Let me repeat myself.”
• “Again...”
• “I would like to reiterate that...”
REPAIR
Repair strategies also include requesting
clarification or making a clarifying question,
request for repetition, and request for
definition, translation or explanation.
• “Does it mean that we do not need to
come to school if there are no face-to-
face classes?”
TERMINATION
Termination refers to the conversation
participants’ close-initiating expressions
that end a topic in a conversation.
This strategy is used to end an interaction or close
a topic. Most of the time, the topic initiator or the
person who opened the topic takes responsibility to
signal the end of the discussion as well.
TERMINATION
You may use the following expressions to
end a conversation:
• “It’s nice catching up with you. I must be
going.”
• “Thanks for your time. See you around.”
• “Regards to your wife. See you soon.”
COMMUNICATIVE
STRATREGIES
WHAT’S MORE?
DIRECTIONS: Select the most acceptable, polite and
meaningful response in each situation by choosing
the letter of the best answer.
Your leader unconsciously read the
instruction too fast.
“I am sorry for “Sorry, but I did not “Excuse me, I will
interrupting you, understand the not understand the
but can you read it instruction.” instruction if you
once more?” are reading too
fast.”
Or
WHAT’S MORE?
DIRECTIONS: Select the most acceptable, polite and
meaningful response in each situation by choosing
the letter of the best answer.
During the club meeting , you want to
express your ideas in resolving the issues
you are all in.
“I want all of you to “I think I have a “Excuse me
listen to me.” better idea so hear everyone, can I
me out.” share my ideas
about it?”
Or
WHAT’S MORE?
DIRECTIONS: Select the most acceptable, polite and
meaningful response in each situation by choosing
the letter of the best answer.
You want your classmate to help you in
answering your assignment.
“Hello! Classmate, “I helped you last “I need you to help
can you help me in time, can you help me with my
answering this?” me this time?” assignment.”
Or
TALK TO ME!
DIRECTIONS: Assume that you are in the situation
given below and complete the following
conversations using acceptable, polite, and
meaningful various communicative strategies that
you learned.
SITUATION 1
First Day of Classes
Or
TALK TO ME!
TEACHER: Good morning, class! I know that you are
all excited to meet one another with that, I want
each of you to introduce yourself here in front. So
lets start.
STUDENT 1:
_________________________________
_________________________________
TEACHER: Very Good! That’s interesting.
Or
TALK TO ME!
DIRECTIONS: Assume that you are in the situation
given below and complete the following
conversations using acceptable, polite, and
meaningful various communicative strategies that
you learned.
SITUATION 2
Election of Classroom Officers
Or
TALK TO ME!
ELECTED PRESIDENT:
STUDENT 1: I respectfully nominate ____ to be our
Classroom Secretary.
STUDENT 2: ________________________
ELECTED PRESIDENT: Do you still have other
nomination?
STUDENT 2: ________________________
ELECTED PRESIDENT: Okay, we can now proceed to
voting.
Or
TALK TO ME!
DIRECTIONS: Assume that you are in the situation
given below and complete the following
conversations using acceptable, polite, and
meaningful various communicative strategies that
you learned.
SITUATION 3
Phone Conversation with a Close Friend
Or
TALK TO ME!
Mary: Hello, Grace! How are you today?
Grace: _____________________________
Mary: Wow! That’s good to hear! I am also busy
doing household chores and trying new things in
ECQ. Anyway, are you done with your online
assignment?
Grace: _____________________________
Mary: Oh, I see. Oops, that’s your mother? I can hear
her over the phone ? Is she asking you for
something?
Grace: _____________________________
Or
MOVIE MO ‘TO!
DIRECTIONS: Think of three scenes from your
favorite movies where different communicative
strategies were employed in one conversation.
Evaluate if it employs acceptable, polite and
meaningful communicative strategy.
Reason why it is an
Movie Communicative acceptable, polite
(scene, context and strategy used and meaningful
characters) communicative
strategy.
Or
MOVIE MO ‘TO!
5 POINTS 4 POINTS 3 POINTS 2 POINTS 1 POINT
If the given If the given If the given If the given If the given
scene context scene, context, scene, context, scene, context, scene, context,
and characters and characters and characters and characters and characters
completely closely matched moderately slightly matched did not match the
matched the the idea of the matched the the idea of the idea of the
idea of the communicative idea of the communicative communicative
communicative strategy used. communicative strategy used. strategy used.
strategy used. strategy used.
Or
ORAL COMMUNICATION
IN CONTEXT
Core Subject Description:
The development of listening and speaking skills and strategies for
effective communication in various situations.