The Relationship between the Use of Communication Strategies and Oral Performance of ELT Students: Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Case

Authors : Sabriye SENER, Nalan BAYRAKTAR BALKIR

Pages : 62-69

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Publication Date : 2014-01-27

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :  This article introduces the communication strategies employed by English Language Department insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ELT); students of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. It also presents the strategies employed by the students in terms of gender, and prep and non-prep categories. Finally, it gives the relationship between their communication strategy use and success. To this end, 76 freshman students constitute the working group of the research. In this study, a hybrid research design was employed.The quantitative data were collected from the students by means of a “Communication Strategy Inventory” and the qualitative data were collected by means of an open-ended question. The most frequently used communication strategy sub-group was found to be approximation and the lowest communication strategy sub-group was foreignising. Besides, a significant difference in favour of the females only in the non-linguistic devices category was found. Finally, the students who employed modification strategies were found to be very successful. 
Keywords : Learning strategies, communication strategies, communication strategy use