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Communication Strategies

Communication Strategies. Keep the conversation flowing!. What is a communication strategy?. “potentially conscious plans for solving what to an individual presents itself as a problem in reaching a particular communicative goal.”

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Communication Strategies

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  1. Communication Strategies Keep the conversation flowing!

  2. What is a communication strategy? • “potentially conscious plans for solving what to an individual presents itself as a problem in reaching a particular communicative goal.” • H.D. Brown, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, 2007

  3. Avoidance Strategies • Message abandonment • Leaving a message unfinished because of language difficulties. • Is this useful to accomplish a task? • Topic Avoidance • Avoiding topic areas or concepts that pose language difficulties. • Can you always do this in the real world? • Phonological Avoidance • Avoiding words that you cannot pronounce

  4. Compensatory Strategies • Circumlocution • Describing the target object when you don’t know or cannot think of the word you need. • Ex: You know, that place where you go to learn. (school) • Approximation • Using another word to express what you’re trying to say as closely as possible • Ex: using the word “boat” instead of “ship” • Use of all-purpose words • Extending a general item to contexts where specific words are lacking. • Ex: thing, stuff, whatchamacallit

  5. Compensatory Strategies • Word coinage • Making up a word based on something you already know. • Should the word be similar to your L1 knowledge or L2 knowledge? • Prefabricated patterns • Survival phrases that are memorized • Ex: No habloespañol. • Nonlinguistic signals • Body language, miming, gesturing, facial expressions, sound imitation.

  6. Compensatory Strategies • Literal translation • Translating literally from L1 to L2. • Not always effective but worth a try when stuck. • Foreignizing • Using an L1 word and adjusting it so it sounds like an L2 word. • Ex: Adding “o” to everything or saying English words in a Spanish accent. • Code-switching • Switching back to your L1 while in the middle of your L2 • Ex: Spanglish, used by many Hispanic American bilinguals.

  7. Compensatory Strategies • Appeal for help • Asking for aid from the speaker directly or indirectly • Ex: How do you say….?, pausing, eye contact, puzzled expression • Stalling or time-gaining • Using fillers or hesitations to fill pauses and gain time to think. • Ex: uh, let’s see, well, actually, as a matter of fact

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