The document defines communication strategies as techniques used by speakers to express meaning when facing difficulties in a second language. It presents Tarone's typology of conscious communication strategies, which includes avoidance, paraphrasing, conscious transfer, appeals for assistance, and miming. Avoidance strategies are topic avoidance and message abandonment. Paraphrasing strategies comprise approximation, word coinage, circumlocution. Conscious transfer includes literal translation and language switching.