Sentence examples for communicative tasks from inspiring English sources

Experiments in the testbed examine the interaction between (1) agents' resource limits in attentional capacity and inferential capacity; (2) agents' choice in communication; and (3) features of communicative tasks that affect task difficulty such as inferential complexity, degree of belief coordination required, and tolerance for errors.

In the first part of this section, we provide a summary of the communicative strategies (categories and communicative tasks) that clinicians used to communicate with LEP patients across the seven psychiatric interviews (see Table 1).

6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

Communicative tasks in TBI encourage learners to use their linguistic resources to share and convey their intended meaning and information.

Twenty-two child ESL learners carried out communicative tasks that provided contexts for targeted forms and interactional feedback to occur.

Learners have a variety of opportunities to practice short, supported and guided communicative tasks about elements of the new knowledge in the two previous teaching steps.

People generally do more than one thing at the same time through their communication; and any particular communicative task can be attempted and accomplished via multiple practices: think, for instance, of the multiple ways in which one can attempt to ascertain information, including asking direct questions; issuing 'fishing' comments; conveying confusion; and raising concerns.

Specifically, Flowerdew and Miller (2005) recommend that communicative, task-based, or integrated approaches encompassing problem-solving tasks serve practical techniques for eliciting speaking performance.

A factorial experimental design contrasted two tightly matched stimulation sites (right pSTS vs left MT+, i.e., a contiguous homotopic task-relevant region) and tasks (a communicative task vs a visual tracking task that used the same sequences of stimuli).

We show that language users optimise form-meaning mappings only when pressures for accuracy and efficiency both operate during a communicative task, supporting Zipf's conjecture that the Principle of Least Effort can explain this universal feature of word length distributions.

This extends previous findings [57] by showing that even in the absence of imitation trials, and during a genuinely communicative task, the brain regions associated with the pMNS for goal-directed actions are consistently activated.