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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 (A)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Gestures and mimes (D)</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 (D)</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 (A)</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 (C)</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 (C)</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 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are communication strategies?

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

What are L1-based communication strategies?

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

What are L2-based communication strategies?

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

What are reduction strategies?

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

What are achievement strategies?

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

What are non-verbal or non-linguistic strategies?

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

What is the purpose of communication strategies?

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

What are reduction strategies used for?

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

What are achievement strategies used for?

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

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

<p>False (B)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Communication strategies can only apply to syntactic difficulties.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

There is only one way to categorize communication strategies.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Reduction strategies are employed to avoid sending the intended message.

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Code switching is an example of an achievement strategy.

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Paraphrase is an example of a reduction strategy.

<p>False (B)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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