Stage 1 guidelines for speaking: Interactional skills

Here is an objective for learning interactional skills for Stage 1 for speaking:

• To use the social conventions accompanying the basic survival situations in which you are learning to function

  See:	Stage 1 guidelines for speaking: Functions

Here are some interactional skills strategies for Stage 1 guidelines for speaking:

• Analysis

  Keep a list of communication functions you want to be able to perform and the sentences you can use to express them. Ask a language associate (LA) or teacher for different ways to express these functions as you progress.

• Practice

  Imagine yourself in a context where you would say the sentences you are practicing, or do role play so that the words and sentences you say are in a meaningful context.

• Rehearsal

  Before you go out to the community for real-life communication situations, rehearse what you want to say and what you expect to hear in reply.

• Ask for help

  Ask the LA explicitly to correct you if you say something awkward or impolite.

Here are some interactional skills techniques for Stage 1 guidelines for speaking:

• The Survival Phrases technique
• The Script Analysis technique

Here are some informal interactional skills activities for Stage 1 guidelines for speaking:

• The Eating Out activity
• The Public Transport activity
• The Shopping Trip activity
• The Social Visiting activity
• Use memorized material appropriately in real communication situations. Get a LA to accompany you sometimes and give you feedback. This may make you nervous at first, but will be of great help in the long run.

• Generic module: Stage 1 guidelines for speaking: Interactional ski...
• In overview module: Stage 1: 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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