The Influence Of Teaching Communication Strategies On Tertiary Iraqi EFL Students’ Fluency And Self-Confidence
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Date
2018-03
Authors
Al-Geburi, Raed Latif Ugla
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
This study examines the influence of communication strategy instruction on
tertiary Iraqi EFL students’ fluency and self-confidence. For the purpose of this
study, 50 tertiary Iraqi EFL students were selected and divided into three proficiency
levels (low, intermediate, high). In this study, the researcher used quasi-experimental
one group pretest-posttest design. All the students received 10-week communication
strategies training lessons. These lessons were based on teaching 10 kinds of
communication strategies which were selected from taxonomies of Dörnyei and
Scotts’ (1995a, 1995b) and Farrahi's (2011). These strategies were taught according
to the instructional guide which was proposed for this study. This guide was based on
providing valuable definitions and examples for the selected communication
strategies. It followed some procedures that were proposed by Dörnyei (1995).
Pretest and posttest procedures were used to find out the influence of the instruction
of communication strategies on Iraqi EFL students’ use of non-taught/ taught
communication strategies, fluency, and self-confidence. The influence of the
instruction was assessed by two types of data collection which are qualitative and
quantitative. The qualitative data were collected using the oral test (topic description)
and speaking task (storytelling). On the other hand, the quantitative data were
collected using IELTS Speaking Test and self-confidence questionnaire. These data
were respectively analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings of this
study revealed that the participants were varied in the use of non-taught/ taught
communication strategies before and after the instruction of communication
strategies.
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Influence of communication strategy instruction , on tertiary Iraqi EFL students