Communication Strategies Employed by Pre-Service EFL Teachers during Oral Interaction
This current study aimed at revealing communication problems encountered by pre-service EFL teachers during oral interaction and types of communication strategies used to cope those problems. The data were collected from four pre-service EFL teachers who have studied at English education program i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ishik University
2018-12-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://ijsses.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Communication-Strategies-Employed-by-Pre-Service-EFL-Teachers-During-Oral-Interaction.pdf |
| Summary: | This current study aimed at revealing communication problems encountered by pre-service EFL
teachers during oral interaction and types of communication strategies used to cope those problems. The
data were collected from four pre-service EFL teachers who have studied at English education program in a
university in Indonesia. This case study used observation and semi-structured interview to gain the required
data. Then, taxonomy of communication strategies proposed by Dornyei &Scott (1997) was used to analyze
the types of communication strategies use. The result revealed that pre-service EFL teachers encountered
several communication problems during conducting oral interaction with foreigner. In addition, it was
found that several types of communication strategies employed to cope those arisen communication
problems. Those communication strategies help them to solve their problems during communication course
and to maintain the flow of conversation. |
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| ISSN: | 2409-1294 2520-0968 |