Master Your Communication Skills

They are 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

The source of the problem can be linguistic, cultural or even contextual

Communication strategies are also believed to be potentially conscious plans for solving any language-related problem in reaching a particular communicative goal

There have been many attempts to categorise the ______, the number of categories varying according to perspective or discipline

Some researchers classify ______ as either related to speaker’s first language (L1-based strategies) or to the target language (L2-based strategies)

Non-verbal or non-linguistic strategies include ______

Reduction strategies indicate negative performance as they comprise strategies that are employed to avoid sending the intended message

Achievement strategies are speaker's attempts to send the message by using different communication strategies such as code switching or paraphrase

______ include language switch or foreignasing

______ include word coinage or description

Reduction strategies are employed to avoid sending the intended message

Achievement strategies are used to send the message by using different communication strategies