Strategies for effective conversation

• Conversation or dialogue


  A natural part of life in which people can exchange information and maintain social relationships with friends, family members and others
• Communication


  The art of exchanging messages between two or more people
• Strategies for effective conversation

  • To repair breakdowns
  • To repeat the question
  • To express insufficient idea / opinion
  • To acknowledge the ideas/opinions of other people
  • To clarify
  • To show active listening/ to summarize
  • Backchannelling - a way of expressing you follow and understand what the speaker says. often through interjections
• To repair breakdowns


  Sorry, I didn't hear you . Can you repeat? I beg your pardon. Come again, please.
• To repeat the question


  My favorite color? Yes, it's red.
• To express insufficient idea / opinion


  • I'm afraid I don't know much about it.
  • I'm sorry but I have no idea about that.
• To acknowledge the ideas/opinions of other people


  • I see.
  • Now, I know.
  • Yes, I got your point.
• To clarify


  • Do you mean that ….?
  • Are you saying that…?
• To show active listening/ to summarize


  • Okay, so Mary thinks that … while John believes that…
  • Ana mentioned that….
• Backchannelling - a way of expressing you follow and understand what the speaker says. often through interjections


  • Uhhmmm
  • … I see.
  • Hmmm…ok.
  • Oh,yes!
• What is Academic Writing?

  Formal mode of writing