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COMMUNICATIONSTUDIES
SCENARIO: A group of farmers from a rural village in your country has invited you
to give the Opening Address at their workshop titled The Effects of Harmful
Chemicals.
In an essay, discuss how you will develop your presentation looking specifically at:
I)The communication challenges that you most likely will encounter as you
address the members of this rural farming community
II)The language variety, register and vocabulary that you will take into
Consideration
III) Such factors as your organizational strategies, visual/audio visual aids and
any other resources that you may use in your presentation.
The challenge of how do you get the message of the need for
change from harmful chemicals that they have been using for so
long to newer and safer/more effective chemicals/ even eco-friendly
chemicals
Find out before hand if there were other issues dealing with harmful effects of
the chemicals
Try to fit in with the audience, pay attention to dress code do not
over dress etc ...be as natural as possible
Ask them to work with you sensitive to their needs and concerns
Remember that your visual aids are just that aids do not make
them your focus!
The choice of register can seem automatic to many persons but there are always certain
factors influencing a persons choice of register(s). For example in this piece the person
utilizes 2 registers, namely formal and consultative. (Now you give the evidence from piece
and you make a possible justification for the choice)
If you are with strangers or persons of authority youd use a FORMAL register (audience
influencing register)
The content (what you have to say) also influence register choice
Setting also influences register (subject to many factors such as relationship, location,
content)
Persons may hope to appear as a competent speaker of the language he/she is attempting (to
impress)
Person may hope to send a message that I am your equal or you are not better than I am
By their parent who though is not able to speak the language motivates their child to speak
Std because of the perceptions about the benefits of having a good command of English
The exposure in their school situation to speak only the Standard English
May believe that both learning and having a good command of the Std which is the official
language will give one the opportunities for upward mobility
In this exercise you need to write about how technology will allow the audience to see and
hear certain situations found in the written piece.
After identifying the situation give examples from the passage (the audience will be able to
see the startled expression on Tanties face as she reacted to the clerks comment or that
the audience will hear how comical Busboy sound as he tried to say the word Saterde )