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Speaking language features - Coggle Diagram
Speaking
language features
Types of speech
Planned / unplanned
interpersonal / non interpersonal: Happens at a social level, such as chatting.
transactional / non transactional: to obtain or provide information, like buying a ticket, reading the news
Communication strategies
Circumlocution
…you know, a thing you put in the hole in the bath and it stops the water from going out.
Word coinage
…and economician
Foreignizing a word
…saying ‘I’m gidiyoring’ for a Turkish student when they can’t remember ‘go’.
Approximation
… using clothes cupboard for wardrobe
Using an all purpose word
… using stuff, thing, make, do
Code-switching
… using the L1 expression
Paralinguistics
… using gesture, mime etc to get your meaning across
Appealing for help
… I can’t find house … how say … I get … ?
Speaking functions/ subskills
P1T3
agreeing/ disagreeing
I agree/disagree with you
offering
Shall I...? would you like me to..?
changing the subject/ progressing the discussion
By the way..../ talking of...
accepting a compliment:
Oh thank you.
inviting people to speak:
What are your views on this?
giving an opinion
clarifying/asking for clarification:
making and responding to requests
meeting/ greeting
summarizing/ presenting results
turn-taking
interpersonal/ social skills.
Features of discourse
13 Collocations
14 Conditionals (for giving reasons/examples)
15 Reported speech
16 Future forms
17 Comparative structures
18 Articles
19 Causative conjunctions
20 Relative clauses
21 Present simple
22 Question forms / tag questions
23 Appropriate lexis
24 Prepositions