Master Your Communication Skills
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Master Your Communication Skills

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Which of the following best defines communication strategies?

  • The avoidance of sending intended messages
  • The ability to speak multiple languages fluently
  • The use of gestures and mimes to communicate
  • The ways and means we employ when we experience a problem in communication (correct)

    • What are the potential sources of communication problems?

  • Environmental, economic, and political
  • Cognitive, behavioral, and neurological
  • Emotional, social, and physical
  • Linguistic, cultural, and contextual (correct)

    • What are the different types of communication strategies?

  • Sociolinguistic, sociocultural, and pragmatic
  • Phonological, lexical, and syntactic
  • Verbal, non-verbal, and visual
  • L1-based, L2-based, and non-verbal (correct)

    • What are reduction strategies in communication?

    <p>Strategies employed to avoid sending the intended message</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are achievement strategies in communication?

    <p>Speaker's attempts to send the message by using different communication strategies such as code switching or paraphrase</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of an L1-based communication strategy?

    <p>Language switch</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of an L2-based communication strategy?

    <p>Word coinage</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are non-verbal or non-linguistic strategies in communication?

    <p>Gestures and mimes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of communication strategies?

    <p>To solve language-related problems in reaching a particular communicative goal</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the difference between reduction and achievement strategies in communication?

    <p>Reduction strategies avoid sending the intended message, while achievement strategies attempt to send the message using different communication strategies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the different aspects of the linguistic system that communication strategies can apply to?

    <p>Phonological, lexical, syntactic, sociolinguistic/sociocultural, and pragmatic</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the definition of communication strategies according to most researchers?

    <p>The ways and means we employ when we experience a problem in communication, either because we cannot say what we would like to say or because we cannot understand what is being said to us</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT considered a potential source of communication problems according to researchers?

    <p>Emotional</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are communication strategies?

    <p>Ways and means we use to communicate effectively</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following aspects of the linguistic system can communication strategies be applied to?

    <p>Any aspect that makes communication difficult</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are L1-based communication strategies?

    <p>Strategies related to the speaker's first language</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are L2-based communication strategies?

    <p>Strategies related to the target language</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are reduction strategies?

    <p>Strategies employed to avoid sending the intended message</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are achievement strategies?

    <p>Speaker's attempts to send the message using different communication strategies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are non-verbal or non-linguistic strategies?

    <p>Gestures and mimes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of communication strategies?

    <p>To solve language-related problems in achieving communicative goals</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the difference between L1-based and L2-based communication strategies?

    <p>L1-based strategies relate to the speaker's first language, while L2-based strategies relate to the target language</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are reduction strategies used for?

    <p>To avoid sending the intended message</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are achievement strategies used for?

    <p>To send the message using different communication strategies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Communication strategies are only used when we cannot understand what is being said to us.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Communication strategies can be conscious plans for solving any language-related problem in reaching a particular communicative goal.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Communication strategies can only apply to syntactic difficulties.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    There is only one way to categorize communication strategies.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    L1-based strategies are related to the speaker's first language.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    L2-based strategies are related to the speaker's first language.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Non-linguistic strategies do not play a role in communication strategies.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Reduction strategies are employed to avoid sending the intended message.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Achievement strategies are speaker's attempts to send the message by using different communication strategies.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Code switching is an example of an achievement strategy.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Paraphrase is an example of a reduction strategy.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Communication strategies can apply equally well to any aspect of the linguistic system which makes communication hard or even impossible to achieve.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

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