Communicative Strategy Summative Test
Communicative Strategy Summative Test
I. True or False: Write True if the statement is correct and False if not. Write your answer on the
space provided before each number.
___False_______1. Repair in communication refers to any limitation you may have as a speaker.
____True______2. Turn-taking pertains to the process by which people decide who takes the
conversational floor.
_____True_____3. Termination refers to conversation participants’ close initiating expressions
that end
a topic in a conversation.
____True______4. Communicative strategies are used to achieve an effective and a meaningful
communication.
_____True_____5. Nomination, Restriction, Turn-taking, Topic Control, Topic Shifting, Repair, and
Termination are the communicative strategies.
___False_______6. Nomination is used to consider any limitation you may have as a speaker.
__________7. Turn-taking leads the communicators to determine who should speak and respond
next to establish and sustain a productive conversation.
__________8. Topic-shifting helps the communicators to stick to a topic throughout the
discussion.
__________9. Repair refers to how communicators address the communication barriers or
problems that may occur in a conversation.
__________10. Nomination refers to bringing the conversation to its conclusion, or simply ending
a
topic in a communication.
__________11. Topic Shifting is where one part of a conversation ends and where another
begins.
__________12. The primary idea of turn-taking is to give all communicators a chance to speak.
__________13. Termination aims to resolve problems arising in any communicative situations.
__________14. Termination is a communicative strategy that involves ending a conversation.
__________15. Nomination is a communicative strategy that we use when we want to establish a
topic in a conversation.
II. Identification: Identify the type of communicative strategy evident in each statement. Write
your answer on the space provided before each number.