Communication Strategies And Collaboration Of Malaysian ESL Learners In Oral Interaction
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Date
2012-06
Authors
Ismail, Che Rushita @ Rushita
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
The study reported in this thesis is an analysis of the use of communication strategies
and collaboration of Malaysian ESL learners in oral interaction. It examined how
Malaysian ESL learners manage to communicate their message in second language
face-to-face oral interaction when the intended target language lexical items or
structures to express meaning are unavailable. More specifically, the study aimed to
analyse how learners and interlocutors convey meaning through the use of
communication strategies when the desired lexical items or structures are
unavailable. It also analysed how communication was achieved through joint and
collaborative efforts of the learners and interlocutors and the extent to which
communication strategy use and collaborative efforts provided new lexical input for
the learners. The study utilized a qualitative research design of a descriptive
interpretative case study. Participants were 16 dyads of university students majoring
in Applied Language Studies at Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam working on
a picture-story narration of spot-the–difference task. In this study, the dyads’ usage
of communication strategies and collaboration were analysed when they
communicated the same set of pre-selected 32 referents. A stimulated recall
interview was carried out at the end of the task through the replay of video recorded
data. Comments made on the encountered linguistic difficulties and strategies they
employed earlier in the task were audio recorded. The analysis of the data findings
revealed that learners and interlocutors used communication strategies in singles or
in combinations.
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Communication strategies and collaboration of Malaysian , ESL learners in oral interaction