Strategic Competence game/activity

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Brinna
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Strategic Competence game/activity

Post by Brinna » Sun Nov 09, 2003 10:59 pm

Hello everyone!

I am a university student preparing a presentation on "Strategic Competence". Does anyone know of a good activity or game that I could use along with the other information I will present?

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Post by dduck » Mon Nov 10, 2003 2:22 pm

Strategic competence
This is the set of strategies that are put into use when communication fails. These are of two main types: grammatical strategies that are used when grammatical competence fails, and socio-linguistic strategies that are used in situations when the socio-linguistic competence is inadequate. Some of the strategies mentioned in [Tarone1981] are: approximation, circumlocution, repetition, emphasis, asking for help, miming, avoiding the problematic concepts, and abandoning an utterance already initiated.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/active/d ... node6.html

You should be able to have fun with: repetition, and miming. Circumlocution might also prove interesting: trying to think of all the different ways of saying something without actually say the key word or phrase. I think there are a few games like this, Mimic I think it's called.
Iain

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