Stage 3 guidelines for speaking: Interactional skills

Here are some interactional skills objectives for Stage 3 for speaking:

• To internalize scripts for common everyday social situations to use, including society rules for how people should interact in these situations
• To use appropriate gestures, eye contact, personal space, and body language to go with each script

Here are some interactional skills strategies for Stage 3 guidelines for speaking:

• Review

  Review insights gained through listening and reading and incorporate them into your speech.

• Analysis

  Analyze social situations of everyday life and how people act in them. Identify typical scripts. Identify variations of scripts based on differences in social relationships among participants.

• Practice

  Use role-play techniques to practice playing appropriate roles in different social situations. Rehearse for real situations.

• Asking for correction

  Convince a language associate (LA) or other friends in the society that you really want to be corrected if you act inappropriately in a social situation.

Here are some interactional skills techniques for Stage 3 guidelines for speaking:

• The Dialogue techniques
• The Script Analysis technique
• The Role-Play technique
• The Participant Observation technique

Here are some interactional skills activities for Stage 3 guidelines for speaking:

The Social Visiting activity

• The Shopping Trip activity
• The Join in the Work activity
• The Eating Out activity
• The Public Transport activity
• The Telephone Procedures activity

• Sociocultural themes: Daily life
• Sociocultural themes: Social relations

• Generic module: Stage 3 guidelines for speaking: Interactional ski...
• In overview module: Stage 3: Speaking modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

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