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Strategic Competence game/activity
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 10:59 pm
by Brinna
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?
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 2:22 pm
by dduck
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