İletişim stratejileri: İngilizceyi yabancı dil olarak öğrenen üniversite öğrencilerine yönelik çıkarımlar

Year 2013, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 255 - 268, 01.10.2013

Şaziye Yaman Pelin Irgın Mehtap Kavasoğlu

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Communication strategies: Implications for EFL university students

Abstract

Oral communication is an interactive process in which an individual alternately takes the
roles of speaker and listener. Thus, rather than focusing on each skill separately, these skills
should be considered integratedly. In order for students to overcome the burdens in listening
and speaking skills, they need to develop communicative competence, especially strategic
competence. With reference to speaking, strategic competence points out the ability to know
how to keep a conversation going, how to terminate the conversation, and how to clear up
communication breakdowns and comprehension problems (Shumin, 1994). Therefore, the
aim of this quantitative study is to investigate both speaking and listening strategies (so
called “communication strategies”) used by EFL students to cope with problems during
communication so they can be integrated into language teaching in order to develop
students’ strategic competence. Two hundred ninety-one Turkish EFL university students
participated in this study. Researchers used the “Communication Strategy Inventory”, a 5
point Likert-type scale developed by Yaman, Irgin and Kavasoglu (2011). The findings of this
study revealed that EFL students used negotiation for meaning, compensatory, and getting the
gist strategies in communication. It also found that female students used communication
strategies more than males and advanced level students

Keywords

Communication, Strategy, EFL learner

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