Archanya Sriwantanasin. The use of communication strategies in different speaking tasks by English major students. Master's Degree(English for Business and Industry Communication (English Program)). King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok. Central Library. : King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, 2016.
The use of communication strategies in different speaking tasks by English major students
Abstract:
This study aims to investigate English major students use of communication strategies while performing different speaking tasks: one-way and two-way tasks. The participants were 30 third-year students majoring in English for career track at Naresuan University. The convenience sampling method was used to select the participants. The study was conducted as qualitative study by using non-participant observation. Data were collected by the observation form and transcription data of two different tasks: a picture description task (one-way task) and a role-play task (two-way task). The frequency, percentage and Chi-square were employed to analyze the data. The results showed that the students used all 5 main types of communication strategies which included avoidance strategy, target language-based strategy, L1-based strategy, modification devices and nonlinguistic strategy. The most frequently used type of communication strategies was modification devices and the least used type of communication strategies was avoidance strategy. The findings also showed that the students used various types of communication strategies while performing two different tasks. The results of Chi-square test revealed that there were significant differences in the students use of type of communication strategies in one-way and two-way tasks.