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The introduction discusses how pronunciation is still neglected worldwide and reviews research showing its importance for communication, listening comprehension, reading and spelling. The problem is identified as teachers lacking useful strategies for teaching pronunciation.
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1. Using activities that combine language input and opportunities for students to communicate, in order to move beyond just learning forms to practicing communication.
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3. Creating role-plays and discussions that simulate real-world contexts and tasks, allowing students to practice a range of communicative functions.
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1. Using activities that combine language input and opportunities for students to communicate, in order to move beyond just learning forms to practicing communication.
2. Helping students build stocks of minimal responses and familiarizing them with common conversational scripts to increase confidence and participation.
3. Teaching clarification strategies so students are comfortable acknowledging misunderstandings.
4. Creating information-gap and role-playing activities
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This document reviews strategies for teaching English pronunciation. It begins by stating that pronunciation is often neglected in ESL/EFL classrooms despite its importance. The purpose is to review pronunciation teaching strategies from different sources.
The introduction discusses how pronunciation is still neglected worldwide and reviews research showing its importance for communication, listening comprehension, reading and spelling. The problem is identified as teachers lacking useful strategies for teaching pronunciation.
A theoretical framework of seven changes in second language learning and teaching paradigms is presented that has implications for pronunciation instruction. Research on the relationships between intelligibility, comprehensibility and accent is summarized, with limitations noted.
The literature review discusses researchers' views on the key contents of pronunciation instruction,
Recently English has been employed as a medium of instruction at the Vietnamese tertiary level. It is necessary to teach its students listening strategies to help them deal with the potential problems that may arise during listening or prepare them for their further educational purposes. This study, therefore, aims to explore the EFL teachers’ perceptions of listening strategies and the application of listening strategies, and discover difficulties that they encounter in their instruction at a public university (henceforth called PU) in Ho Chi Minh City-Vietnam. Thirty six EFL teachers who were teaching English at PU were invited to participate in the study. Quantitative and qualitative data were obtained through two instruments, namely questionnaire and interview. The results revealed that not all the strategies were frequently employed for listening instruction. Several strategies were more frequently employed than the others; for example, cognitive, metacognitive and affective strategies were frequently integrated into instruction by the EFL teachers. Regarding the potential problems relating to listening lessons, the results showed that most of the EFL teachers had difficulties relating to professional development, students and teaching resources. This study is expected to shed light to the implementation of teaching listening strategies in PU context and in other similar contexts.
The Effect of Using English Language only and Not Using the Mother Tongue in ...inventionjournals
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This document summarizes a study that compares the inductive and deductive approaches for teaching English verb tenses to Taiwanese university students. The study examines the effects of the two approaches on students with different cognitive styles (field independent vs field dependent). Students were assigned to either an inductive or deductive group and their learning outcomes were assessed. Results showed that both approaches were effective, with the deductive group showing more significant improvement. Field dependent students improved more than field independent students, regardless of the teaching approach used.
This document discusses strategies for teaching speaking skills. It begins by noting that speaking proficiency is a major concern for many language learners and teachers. However, grammar and vocabulary often receive more focus than speaking skills. The document then explores several strategies teachers can use to develop students' speaking abilities, including:
1. Using activities that combine language input and opportunities for students to communicate, in order to move beyond just learning forms to practicing communication.
2. Helping students learn scripts for common speaking situations and strategies for clarification, to build confidence in managing conversations.
3. Creating role-plays and discussions that simulate real-world contexts and tasks, allowing students to practice a range of communicative functions.
This document discusses strategies for teaching speaking skills. It begins by noting that speaking proficiency is a major concern for many language learners and teachers. However, grammar and vocabulary often receive more focus than speaking skills. The document then explores several strategies teachers can use to develop students' speaking abilities, including:
1. Using activities that combine language input and opportunities for students to communicate, in order to move beyond just learning forms to practicing communication.
2. Helping students build stocks of minimal responses and familiarizing them with common conversational scripts to increase confidence and participation.
3. Teaching clarification strategies so students are comfortable acknowledging misunderstandings.
4. Creating information-gap and role-playing activities
The aims of this study were to investigate the employment of Other-Initiated Repair Strategies (OIR Strategies) in solving understanding problem in EFL learners’ conversation and to examine the kinds of trouble sources that prompt the employment of OIR Strategies. The participants were nine EFL learners participating in a speaking class in small university in Indonesia. To elicit the learners’ conversations two communicative tasks, Spot the Difference and Desert Island were used. The learners’ conversations during task performance were video-recorded, then, transcribed using the conventions proposed by Markee (2000) and analyzed qualitatively using Conversation Analysis method. The results showed that EFL learners managed to employ eight types of OIR Strategies comprising of 62 instances in total. The strategies are unspecified repair, interrogative repair, partial repeat plus a question word repair, partial repeat repair, understanding check repair, request for repetition, request for definition, and correction repair. Three different types of trouble sources triggered the use of OIR Strategies, namely linguistic-related problem, interactional-related problem, and meaning-related problem. The study demonstrated that by employing different OIR Strategies, even EFL learners with limited proficiency in English managed to take initiatives to overcome the understanding problem in conversations as part of their learning process. Therefore, the EFL teachers need to consider incorporating the teaching of OIR Strategies as part of their speaking class to improve the students’ fluency.
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The problems of Fluency in Spoken English among EFL Learners in Saudi Univers...AJHSSR Journal
ABSTRACT : This study aims to investigate the problems and challenges which is usually experienced by
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that students face when learning English language in Saudi universities and try to find remedies to this problem.
The research uses a questionnaire, interviews, and descriptive methods in the collection of data about fluency in
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program. The results showed that there are various problems which hinder fluency of English learning in the
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used in teaching are also poor. The other problem is the psychological factor which makes student lack
motivation while learning English. The study also contains ways in which these problems can be handled to
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The objectives of this research were to find out: 1) whether or not Think-Pair-Share Technique is effective in improving students’ speaking ability of eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Panca Rijang and 2) whether or not the Eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Panca Rijang are interested in learning speaking English through Think-Pair-Share technique. This research applied quasi-experimental design. The population of this research was three classes of Eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Panca Rijang academic year 2014/2015 with the total population were 69 students. The sample of this research were VIII.1 (23 students) as the experimental group and VIII.3 (23 students) as the control group. This sample was taken by cluster sampling technique. The researcher applied Think-Pair-Share technique in the experimental group and conventional way in control group. This research applied two kinds of instruments were speaking test and questionnaire. Speaking test was used to obtain data of the students’ speaking ability and questionnaire was used to know the students’ interest in learning speaking English through Think-Pair-Share technique. The researcher found that there was a significant difference between achievement of the students who applied Think-Pair-Share technique and who did not applied Think-Pair-Share technique in speaking. It was proved by t-test of post-test (2.206) was higher than t-table (2.021), for α = 0.05 and df = (44) and by the mean score of post-test in experimental group (68.57) was better than mean score of post-test in control group (56.35). And the researcher also found that the Eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Panca Rijang were interested in learning speaking English through Think-Pair-Share technique. It was proved by there were 22 students (95.7%) were interested in speaking English through Think-Pair-Share technique and the mean score of questionnaire was 83.22 and it included in interested category. Based on the data analysis, the researcher concluded that: 1) Think-Pair-Share Technique is effective in improving students’ speaking ability and 2) Eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Panca Rijang are interested in learning speaking English through Think-Pair-Share technique.
Teaching and learning vocabulary is an integral part of foreign language learning since it is the basic sub-skill for someone who wants to learn a foreign language. Thus, it is essential to teach English vocabulary at an early age since students still in the scope of their golden age, and they could learn everything easily. In this case, the teachers' teaching strategy seems essential to be concerned. Moreover, this descriptive qualitative study as a case study is designed to explore the Qur'an Learning Center teachers' perspective on the strategy used to teach vocabulary to young learners. The data were gathered through a semi-structured interview with two English Teachers at the Qur'an Learning Center, one of the elementary schools in Jakarta Selatan. The result of this study revealed that teachers believe that teaching strategy is essential for teaching vocabulary to young learners. Thus, the teachers have various strategies that can be applied for teaching vocabulary to young learners, for example, using games, sing a song, and others. Also, the teachers used interesting media like video, a real thing, pictures, and others. Those strategies are effective in engaging students to learn new vocabulary in English. This study is expected to give reference and knowledge for the English teacher who teaches young learners so they could implement some suitable ways with their real class.
This document presents a research proposal on using vocabulary trees as a technique for teaching vocabulary to junior high school students. It begins with an introduction that language and vocabulary are important for communication. It then discusses the background of the study, including definitions of vocabulary and vocabulary trees. The study aims to examine the vocabulary achievement scores of students taught with vocabulary trees versus a conventional method. It proposes that vocabulary trees may help students learn and retain more words. The significance is that it could provide teachers an effective new technique and help students improve their English vocabulary mastery.
The task-based Language teaching is the teaching theory put forward by foreign language teaching method researchers on the basis of the large quantity of studies and practice in the 1980s. It advocates learning from “doing-it” and the interactive learning styles: learning from experiencing, practicing, participating, communicating and cooperating. The national New Standard for English Curriculum advocates the implementing of TBLT in Junior High School in China. At present, many scholars have investigated the application in terms of teaching of reading, writing and so on, but only a few have involved the study about the application of TBLT in oral English teaching. Through the analysis of the present situation of oral English teaching in Junior High School in China, this thesis aims to solve the teaching problems by applying TBLT to oral English teaching on the basis of the previous study.
This document summarizes several studies on improving students' oral communication skills. One study found that students should learn how language works in addition to using English in the classroom. Another identified three key areas of knowledge - social, self, and content - that influence oral communication effectiveness. Additional studies explored using games and group work to improve students' speaking abilities and confidence. The document also defines speaking as a skill and discusses mixed methods research approaches.
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This document discusses second language acquisition and communication strategies. It provides background on second language acquisition, noting that anyone can learn a second language with practice, even after establishing a first language. The best way to teach a second language depends on various factors like language spoken at home and opportunity to practice. Speech language pathologists can help individuals learning English as a second language, though their services are not covered by insurance. The document also discusses Processability Theory, which proposes that certain grammar elements are acquired in a fixed sequence, and communication strategies that language learners employ to overcome barriers and achieve communication goals when their language skills are limited.
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A STUDY OF EFL STUDENTS ORAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN DISCUSSIONS
1. Indonesian EFL Journal, Vol. 2(1) January 2016
p-ISSN 2252-7427 e-ISSN 2541-3635
AISEE
The Association of Indonesian
Scholars of English Education
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A STUDY OF EFL STUDENTS’ ORAL COMMUNICATION
STRATEGIES IN DISCUSSIONS
Rosi Hardianti
Department of English Education, University of Kuningan
Email: rosihardianti12@gmail.com
APA Citation: Hardianti, R. (2016). A study of EFL students oral communication strategies in
discussions. Indonesian EFL Journal, 2(1), 23-33
Received: 19-11-2015 Accepted: 24-12-2015 Published: 01-01-2016
Abstract: In the process of communication, EFL students frequently experience problem in
saying what they want to say in English. Oral Communication Strategies (OCS) surface as
the students needs to solve problems of expressing their intended meaning. This
descriptive qualitative study intended to analyze (1) types of OCS used by students while
conducting discussion, and the students reasons for using certain types of OCS. The
participants of this study were a group discussion consisting of five EFL students of English
Education Department in the University of Kuningan. The data in this study were gained
from observation and interview which were then transcribed. The data were analyzed
qualitatively by using Dornyei s 99 taxonomy of OCS. The results revealed that
students participated in this study tended to use achievement strategies (73.07%) more
frequently than avoidance strategies (26.92%). Specifically, students used nine out of
twelve communication strategy types, and the most frequent strategy used by students
while conducting discussion was the use of fillers strategy (51.28%). Then, the students
reasons for using fillers strategy in their communication were basically because of their
lack of English vocabulary knowledge and content knowledge of topics which were being
discussed. Thus, students encounter communication problems as the results of target
linguistic inadequacy. Hence, further study might yield different result if the topics chosen
for discussion were desired topics among students.
Keywords: EFL (English as a foreign language), oral communication strategies, discussion
INTRODUCTION
Learning a foreign language
includes the ability to communicate. For
English language learners, they are going
to be put in situations where
communication in English is needed
(Khadidja, 2010). The need for English
speaking mastery has been increased due
to the status of English as a global
language recognize in every country
(Crystal, 2003). However,
communication is one of the crucial skills
that challenge the EFL (English as
Foreign Language) learners to different
degrees. There is often a lack of
communication in EFL classroom which
leads to the inability to communicate in a
native-like way even after several years
of learning the language (Flyman, 1997).
Besides, foreign language speaking
differs from first language speaking in
terms of the lack of grammar and
vocabulary knowledge of the learners
(Khadidja, 2010). As a result, English
language learners frequently experience
problems in saying what they want to
say.
In the process of communication,
learners may come across a great
number of problems without doubt (Wei,
2011). To make communication smooth,
therefore, learners must find some
effective ways to communicate their
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thoughts. Whenever the learner
experiences a problem because of the
limitation of linguistic resources,
learners may use strategic competence.
Strategic competence is the crucial
element in communicative competence
since it refers to language learners
ability to use communication strategies
either to solve communication problems
or to enhance the effectiveness of
communication (Brown, 2000).
Oral Communication Strategies (OCS) is
regarded as useful tools to keep the
communication channel open
(Moattarian, 2012). Corder (1981, in
Dornyei, 1995, p.56) defines oral
communication strategy as a systematic
technique employed by a speaker to
express his or her meaning when faced
with some difficulty . Avoidance
strategies and compensatory strategies
are two sub types of OCS that can be used
by learners in practicing oral
communication whenever
communication problems occur. If
learners do not know a word in the
target language they may 'borrow' a
word from their L1, or use another
target-language word that is
approximate in meaning, or try to
paraphrase the meaning of the word, or
even construct an entirely new word
(Ellis, 1997). In other word, when
language learners do not know how to
say a word in English, they can
communicate effectively by using their
hands, imitating sounds, mixing
languages, inventing new words, or
describing what they mean (Dornyei,
1995).
Table 1. Dornyei s taxonomy of OCS (1995)
No Types of CS Description
1. Message
Abandonment
Leaving a message unfinished because of language
difficulties.
2. Topic Avoidance Avoiding topic areas or concepts which pose language
difficulties.
3. Circumlocution Describing or exemplifying the target object or action
(e.g., the thing you open bottles with for corkscrew).
4. Approximation Using an alternative term which expresses the
meaning of the target lexical item as closely as
possible (e.g., ship for sail boat).
5. Use of All-
Purpose Words
Extending a general, empty lexical item to contexts
where specific words are lacking
(e.g., the overuse of thing, stuff, make, do, as well as
using words like thingie, what-do-you-call-it).
6. Word Coinage Creating a non-existing L2 word based on a supposed
rule (e.g. vegetarianist for vegetarian, paintist for
painter).
7. Use of Non-
Linguistic Means
Mime, gesture, facial expression, or sound imitation.
8. Literal
translation
Translating literally a lexical item, an idiom, a
compound word or structure from LI to L2.
9. Foreignizing Using a LI word by adjusting it to L2 phonologically
(i.e., with a L2 pronunciation) and/or morphologically
(e.g., adding to it a L2 suffix).
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10. Code Switching Using a LI word with LI pronunciation in L2.
11. Appeal for Help Turning to the conversation partner for help either
directly (e.g. What do you call. . . ?) or indirectly (e.g.,
rising intonation, pause, eye contact, puzzled
expression).
12. Use of
Fillers/Hesitation
Devices
Using filling words or gambits to fill pauses and to
gain time to think (e.g., well, now let me see, as a
matter of fact).
The presence of oral
communication strategy is even more
prevalent during communication
between those that are communicating in
an L2 and do not share a common L1
(Yule & Tarone, 1991, in Spromberg,
2011). To the present time, a great deal
of research has been done to investigate
the use of OCS. Ellis (1984, in Moattarian,
2012, p. 9 mentions that OCS can be
considered as a good notion for
evaluating L2 communicative
performance . Understanding the OCS
employed by students can help teachers
understand their strategic competence so
that appropriate strategies could be
chosen for pedagogical purposes. The
teachers can understand a lot about the
learners knowledge by examining the
OCS they employ (Moattarian, 2012).
Discussion is regarded well suited
to facilitate a number of course goals. It is
one of the examples of classroom
speaking activities which are able to
promote speaking skill (Harmer, 2001).
Discussion which refers to student
speaking to group members is defined as
spoken communication among the
students. It allows learners to practice
communicating in an L2 (target
language) which can provide more
opportunities for language production
(Mingzhi, 2005). Therefore, this study
attempts to show the specific types of
communication strategies that English
language learners in the University of
Kuningan use to communicate with one
another in a group discussion. It is
derived from the fact that learners in the
level of university also have limited
knowledge in the foreign language, so
they may use oral communication
strategies to overcome this problem.
In reference to the rationale
previously mentioned, therefore, the
problems of the research are formulated
as follows:
1. What types of oral communication
strategies are used by students in
discussions?
2. What are the students reasons for
using certain types of oral
communication strategies in
discussions?
METHOD
To answer the research questions,
a qualitative research was adopted as the
approach of this study. Qualitative
research was chosen in order to explore
and understand the social phenomenon
(Creswell, 2009). This study was
undertaken at Department of English
Education in the University of Kuningan.
The participants of this study were a
group of five students of speaking 2 class
in the academic year of 2014/2015. The
voluntary students participated in this
study were 2 males and 3 females aged
18-25. They had been learning English
for approximately 6 years. All
participants involved in this study were
Indonesian EFL learners or non-native
English speakers, which means that
English was not used in their daily
communication.
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In this study, the data was
collected through observation and
interview. The data collected through
observation was students interaction
while conducting two sessions meeting
of discussions, which was then video-
taped and transcribed. The topics of
discussion were about character in
Drama and reading aloud poetry . The
writer then conducted face to face
interviews with the participants. Semi-
structured interview was conducted with
all students participated in this study.
The semi-structured interview was
conducted in order to find out the
students reasons for employing certain
types of OCS while conducting
discussions.
Further, the data taken from
observation and semi-structured
interview were analyzed qualitatively. In
analyzing data, the writer used Dornyei s
taxonomy of OCS (cited in Dornyei, 1995)
to answer the research questions.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Types of oral communication
strategies used by students
The first objective of this study
was designed to identify types of oral
communication strategies used by
second semester students of English
Education Department in the University
of Kuningan. Dornyei s 99 taxonomy
of communication strategies was
adopted to identify types of oral
communication strategies used. Within
Dornyei s 99 taxonomy, the
communication strategies were divided
into two main types: avoidance strategies
and achievement strategies. Then, under
each two main types, there exists specific
types of communication strategies.
Table 2. The Frequency of Two Main Types of OCS Used
No Types of OCS Frequency Percentage (%)
1. Avoidance
/Reduction
Strategies
21 26.92%
2. Achievement
/Compensatory
Strategies
57 73.07%
TOTAL 78 100%
As Table 2 showed, a total of 78
communication strategies were used in
this study. It was found that achievement
strategies (73.07%) were more
frequently used than avoidance
strategies (26.92%). Moreover, this
indicated that most of students
participated in this study attempted to
maintain their communication by
developing an alternative plan and to
solve problems in communication by
expanding their communicative
resources, rather than avoiding their
message. Thus, the finding of this study
was in line with Nakatani s study,
where the students tended to use
achievement strategies more than
avoidance strategies in their
communication. This might be because
the students have been studying in the
English Education Department for almost
a year and their experience in learning
English while they were in junior and
senior high school. They were probably
able to speak English regardless of their
grammatical errors. Most of them
attempted to speak as much and as best
as they could to convey their message to
their interlocutor.
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Further, the following table
presents the use of specific types of
communication strategies by the
students in this study in terms of their
frequency, percentage, and rank order
Table 3. The Frequency of Specific Types of OCS Used
No
.
Types of OCS Strategy Frequency Percentag
e (%)
Rank
Order
1. Avoidance or
Reduction
MA 20 25.64% 2
TA 1 1.28% 6
2.
Achievement
or
Compensatory
UF 40 51.28% 1
CS 7 8.97% 3
AH 3 3.85% 4
UP 3 3.85% 4
UN 2 2.56% 5
C 1 1.28% 6
F 1 1.28% 6
A 0 0% -
WC 0 0% -
LT 0 0% -
TOTAL 78 100%
According to the table above, the
data analyzed showed that the students
participated in this study used nine out
of twelve communication strategy types
proposed by Dornyei (1995, p.58). The
finding revealed that within the specific
types of avoidance strategies, 25.64%
were message abandonment, and 1.28%
were topic avoidance, from the total of
communication strategies used.
Moreover, within the specific types of
achievement strategies, 1.28% were
circumlocution, 3.85% were use of all-
purpose words, 2.56% were use of non-
linguistic means, 1.28% were
foreignizing, 8.97% were code-switching,
3.85% were appeal for help, and 51.28%
were use of fillers/ hesitation devices. On
the other hand, approximation, word
coinage, and literal translation, were the
strategies never used by students while
conducting discussions.
Then, the following section
provided description and some
information on the types of OCS used by
participants, as claimed in the first
research question.
1. Avoidance or Reduction Strategies
Under subcategory of avoidance
or reduction strategies, they were
message abandonment and topic
avoidance as the specific types of OCS
proposed by Dornyei (1995). In this
study, it was found that avoidance or
reduction strategies comprised 26.92%
of the total strategy used by all of
students while conducting discussions.
Message Abandonment
Message abandonment was
designated as incomplete sentences
(Nakatani, et al., 2012, p.72). It was found
that almost all students
participated in this study used message
abandonment strategy; only one of them
who never used this strategy. The
following excerpt of students discussion
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illustrated how the participants used
message abandonment strategy:
S : ) think there is some character also in
drama. Do you know by, do you know what
we called as cameo ?
S : Cameo? a…, cameo , it s like er…
(P:02)
(S1 left her message unfinished by using fillers
er… , then silent for more than two seconds
In the next example, S5 used this
strategy by saying ) forget rather than
silent as what S1 did, as follow:
Ss: What? What?
S : ) mean er…, in characteristic there is
antagonist, protagonist, but er…, there is
one more in characteristic, but I forget.
Maybe you can searching in the internet!
S5 left his message unfinished by saying )
forget
Based on the example above, S1
and S5 were the participants who used
message abandonment strategy.
Nakatani (2012, p.73) notes,
participants resorted to message
abandonment as their language
capability did not enable them to
continue the message effectively . )n this
study, message abandonment strategy
used for 20 times or 25.64% of the total
strategy used by all of students while
conducting discussions.
Topic Avoidance
Besides message abandonment
strategy, topic avoidance as the other
specific types of avoidance or reduction
strategies proposed by Dornyei (1995)
was the strategy found in this study.
Topic avoidance was designated as
going off the point Dornyei & Thurrell,
1992, p.71). It was found that not all
students participated in this research
used topic avoidance strategy; only S1
was the participant who used this
strategy. The following excerpt then
illustrated how topic avoidance strategy
employed by participant:
Ss: Comedian?! <LAUG(>
S : ) think it is about the genre?
S : (uh?
S : Oh, no no no <LAUGH>
(S1 tried to go off the statement by saying
NO
Based on the conversation above,
S1 was deliberately going off the
statement or topic by saying no when S2
asked about her statement before. Faerch
& Kasper (1983) believed that topic
avoidance occurs when the learners
simply do not talk about the concepts for
which the vocabulary or other meaning
structure is not known for them. In such
situation, learner may change the topic of
discourse or remain passive (Syahrial,
2013, p.12). In this study, topic
avoidance strategy was used just for once
or 1.28% of the total strategy used by all
participants while conducting
discussions.
2. Achievement or Compensatory
Strategies
Under subcategory of
achievement or compensatory strategies,
they were circumlocution, use of all-
purpose words, use of non-linguistic
means, foreignizing, code-switching,
appeal for help, and use of
fillers/hesitation devices, as the specific
types of OCS used by students. In this
study, it was found that avoidance or
reduction strategies comprised 73.07%
of the total strategy used by all of
students while conducting discussions.
Then, each single achievement or
compensatory strategy with the degree
of its use then could be mentioned in the
following sections:
Use of Fillers
Use of fillers was the most
frequently strategy used by all students
participated in this study. It was used for
40 times or comprised 51.28% of the
total strategy used. The application of
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expressions such as umm…, er…, you
know…, and what is it?, were the use of
fillers strategy occurred in this study.
These expressions were used to fill
pauses and to gain time to think
(Dornyei, 1995, p. 58). These strategy
used by the participants as they wanted
to keep the attention of their group
members in discussion.
Code Switching
This strategy was rather
frequently used by almost all students
participated in this study; only S3 who
did not use this strategy. While
conducting discussions, participants
employed code-switching strategy for 7
times or 8.97% of the total strategy used.
The following excerpt was the example
illustrated how this strategy used:
S : Who is being, you know, pemeran
pengganti.
(Because S2 did not know the words of
pemeran pengganti in English, so she used
Indonesian)
S : …it is er…, make me, ketagihan, enjoy.
(Because S5 did not know the words of
ketagihan in English, so he used )ndonesian
As shown in the examples above,
S2 and S5 used this strategy when they
did not know the English word of
pemeran pengganti and ketagihan .
Therefore, S2 used the word pemeran
pengganti instead of stuntman and S5
used the word ketagihan instead of
addicted . Related to this, Syahrial (2013,
p.10) pointed out that the learners L2
utterance will form a mixture of the
target language (L2) and mother tongue
(L1) . In this study, it was found that the
mixture of languages formed was English
and Indonesian.
Appeal for Help
This strategy was manifested in
rising intonation or in directly asking for
repetition or help (Nakatani, et al., 2012).
In this research, it was not frequently
used by all participants; only S2 who
used appeal for help strategy. It was used
for 3 times or comprised 3.85% of the
total strategy used. For example, S2 did
not know the meaning of the word
dramatical appropriateness , so she
asked to one of her group members in
discussion to help her in defining this
term.
Then, another example of this
strategy was rather different with the
example previously mentioned. S2 did
not know the correct word for pembaca
puisi in English, so she asked her group
members in discussion to help her in
translating the word pembaca puisi into
English. Although S2 mixed her
utterances by using Indonesian, it was
include in appeal for help strategy since
it was indicated by raising the intonation
at the end of her utterances.
Use of All-Purpose Words
This strategy used by extending a
general, empty lexical item to contexts
where specific words are lacking
(Dornyei, 1995). The words such as
thing , stuff , and something
frequently used by students, because
these expressions assisted in sustaining
conversations with the interlocutors
when the exact word was not retrievable
(Nakatani, et al., 2012). The following
excerpt was the example illustrated how
S3 used this strategy:
S : … because it has a lot of preparation; it
takes more than a week, and then what it
is? Um…, tired preparation. And I need to
pick up some things, some stuffs, er…
S : …in real drama also have something like
that. If you watch drama on opera house or
something like that, it also need stunt
man, because stunt man is not only for
movie or film, or something like that.
As shown in the example above,
S3 used general words such as thing ,
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stuff , and something to refer to the
words she meant. In this study, this
strategy was not frequently used by all
participants; only S3 who used appeal for
help strategy. Then, it was revealed that
S3 applied this strategy for 3 times or
comprised 3.85% of the total strategy
used.
Use of Non-Linguistic Means
Another compensatory strategy
which had low frequency was use of non-
linguistic means. Learners used specific
body language to explain unfamiliar
cultural expressions (Nakatani,et al.,
2012, p.75). In this study, S2 and S4 were
the participants who used this strategy.
In the following excerpt illustrated how
this strategy used by S2 and S4:
S : …But in reading aloud poetry in English,
of course is not need. You know, what
you need is only your mime {she used
her hands to describe the word mime },
and also your eye contact {she used her
hands to describe the word eye
contact }, right?
S : Use veil? {He used his hands to refer to
the word veil }
As shown in the example above,
S2 and S4 tried to communicate the
words mime , eye contact , and veil by
using gesture of their hands.A few
students used specific body language to
explain certain words which seemed
difficult to understand. In the other
words, mimes and gestures are seldom
used among students participated in this
study. This strategy was used for twice or
comprised 2.56% of the total strategy
used.
Circumlocution
As explained by Dornyei (1995, p.
58), circumlocution can be understood as
describing or exemplifying the target
object or action . )n this study, this
strategy was another compensatory
strategy which had low frequency; only
S3 who used this strategy. It was found
that circumlocution strategy was just
used once or 1.28% of the total strategy
used. In the following example illustrated
how circumlocution strategy used:
S : …And the antagonist is the opposite, er…
someone who act like bad way, or umm,
bad guy or bad girl. (character)
As the example of circumlocution
strategy used, it showed that S3 tried to
describe the word character any longer.
S hence used the words bad way, or
umm, bad guy or bad girl to refer to the
word character .
Foreignizing
Another compensatory strategy
which participants used was foreignizing.
In this study, foreignizing strategy was
another compensatory strategy which
had low frequency; only S3 who used this
strategy. In this strategy, learners use L1
word by adjusting it to L2 phonologically
(Dornyei, 1995, p.58). In the following
example, S3 pronounced the word
figuran in Indonesia by using English
pronunciation.
S : Stunt man here is a someone who just act
like er…figuran.
{S3 pronounced the word figuran by
/figjurәn/}
As the example above showed, S3
used the Indonesian word of figuran
(/figjurәn/) by using English
pronunciation. Then, it was found that
this strategy was just used once or
comprised 1.28% of the total strategy
used.
On the other hand, three more
types of OCS never used by students
while conducting discussions, they were:
approximation, word coinage, and literal
translation. Approximation strategy was
used to express the meaning of the target
lexical item with an alternative term
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(Nakatani, et al., 2012, p.74). It was found
that no students participated in this
study used approximation while
conducting discussions. It might be about
the EFL students knowledge of
alternative term. Moreover, this strategy
apparently was difficult for students as
their vocabulary knowledge is still
limited.
Word coinage strategy was the
next compensatory strategy which refers
to creating a non-existing L2 word based
on a supposed rule, e.g. vegetarianist for
vegetarian, paintist for painter (Dornyei,
1995, p.58). It was found that no
students participated in this study used
word-coinage while conducting
discussions. As Rusina (2008, in
Nakatani, et al., 2012, p.75) pointed out,
EFL learners are sometimes anxious
about making mistakes in speaking and
have a propensity to avoid speaking
altogether . So, they tried to avoid
making up a new word which was not
exist in the target language. It might be
about the fear of being laughed at if they
made mistakes.
The last strategy never used by
students in this study was literal
translation. Literal translation strategy is
defined as translating literally a lexical
item, idiom, compound word, or
structure from L to L Dornyei, 99 ,
p.58). It was found that no students
participated in this study used literal
translation strategy while conducting
discussions. It probably due to the
existence of native-language mindset
among the students rather decreased.
Although they had limited knowledge of
communication in English, they tried to
minimize the existence of Indonesian
while communicating in English.
The Students Reasons for Using
Certain Types of OCS
The second objective of this study
was to know the reasons of EFL students
for using certain types of OCS in their
communication. It was analyzed to get
conclusion of the reason of EFL students
for using certain types of OCS while
conducting discussion.
Based on the answer of the first
research question, the finding revealed
that the highest frequency of oral
communication strategy types used by all
participants was allocated to the use of
fillers strategy. Then, to analyze the
reasons of students for using certain
types of OCS, a semi-structured interview
was held with participants. The data
collected through a semi-structured
interview then was audio-taped and
transcribed. Five EFL students
participated in this study were
specifically asked about their reasons in
choosing certain types of OCS used while
conducting two sessions meeting of
discussions. Based on the interview, it
was found that all students participated
in this study have same reasons for using
fillers strategy.
The following transcript provided
complete description of the students
interview result related to their reasons
for using fillers strategy. It was revealed
from the interview:
#S : Firstly, maybe it s because ) forget.
Secondly, maybe it s for gaining time, because
) have to think what ) have to say.
#S : Probably it s due to the reflex. So, when )
said like that, I might have the difficulties in
saying what I wanted to say directly. I still
thought what I wanted to say, maybe in the
aspect of its vocabulary. So, in order to remind
me, I said you know? , like that.
#S : )t s actually to gain time because ) didn t
know what the English word for something.
Then, to think and find the vocabulary or
words ) didn t know.
#S : First, it s because ) didn t know the
vocabulary. Second, it s because to think and
remind, so better for me to say what is it?
rather than silent, stop speaking or stuck, and
seem blank.
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#S : Because ) didn t know; ) didn t have idea
in what ) wanted to say. Then, ) didn t know
the vocabulary which was still strange.
Based on the interview above, it
indicated that although the reasons
conveyed by students seemed vary,
however the intended meaning of their
answers were generally same. The
reasons of students for using fillers
strategy in their communication during
discussion were because they didn t
know the English vocabulary for
something and how to express directly
what they wanted to say in English. The
students frequently used fillers strategy
during discussion as they tried to speak
as much as they could instead of silent,
although their English vocabulary and
content knowledge about topic which
was being discussed was still limited. It is
particularly useful for language learners
since they provide them with sense of
security in the language by allowing
them extra time and room to maneuver
(Dornyei & Thurrell, 1992). Perhaps,
students frequently used fillers strategy
in order to keep communication going
instead of getting stuck in their
communication.
CONCLUSION
Overall, students tend to use
achievement or compensatory strategies
more frequently than avoidance or
reduction strategies indicating that most
students attempt to solve problems in
communication by expanding their
communicative resources, rather than
avoiding their message or leaving their
original communication goal. For
instance, the most frequent strategy used
by all of students during discussions
conducted is the use of fillers strategy.
Then, according to the interview
conducted, the students reasons for
using fillers strategy in their
communication are basically because of
their lack of English vocabulary
knowledge and content knowledge of
topic which are being discussed.
In conclusion, students encounter
communication problems as the results
of target linguistic inadequacy. In order
to overcome these problems, the
students resort to several types of
communication strategies. Thus, oral
communication strategy used by the
students is not indicating a sign of
communication failure. Conversely,
communication strategies surface as the
students realize that they have problems
of expressing their intended meaning
and they need to solve the problems.
Then, the writer suggests further
researchers to continue researching on
the use of oral communication strategies
with different context of study, for
example conducting the research in the
context of informal classroom setting.
Besides, the study might yield different
result if the topics chosen for discussion
were desired topics among students. It
becomes recommendation for further
researchers to conduct a further study in
this field, especially for conducting the
research in different classroom speaking
activity, such as in debate.
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