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Communicative strategies

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Created on January 13, 2022

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Communicative strategies

When words fail...

01

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Imagine this...

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You're invited to your cousin's wedding. She's an interpreter with the UN. She sits you at a table with a couple from India and some friends she met while travelling in Japan. After all, you speak English! But when you sit down, you realize that they don't speak English... What do you do??? You have 3 hours of dinner ahead of you... Yikes!!!

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Circumlocution

Approximation

Message abandonment

Word coinage

Literal translation

WHAT CAN

WE DO?

Topic avoidance

Code-switching

Mime

example

Ask for help

Let's help our students

03

This is useful!

How can we teach it?

Practice writing definitions

Practice asking for help

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