Date of Award

2010

Thesis Type

Masters

Document Type

Dissertation

Divisions

Faculty of Languages and Linguistics

Department

Department of English Language

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

This study evaluates the use of Communication Strategies which are employed by Second Language Acquisition (SLA) learners. A comprehensive review of the relevant literature from the last decade is done with focus on the particular consideration given to the different ways in which Communication Strategies have been defined under the corresponding influences in regard to the organization of strategy taxonomies. This study also seeks to examine how learners of second language perform in communicative tasks especially where they are confronted with linguistic problems and communication barriers. It also aims at identifying the communication strategies used by the students from China studying in Malaysia to bridge the discrepancy between their communicative capabilities and their limited communicative resources. An attempt is also made to discover the problems encountered by them in communication which calls for the use of the communication strategies. The methodology used in this study is a Qualitative Research method where the responses of the students in their communications based on three different tasks given is collected. The responses/utterances collected are then analysed to identify both the problems that are encountered as well as the communication strategies that are used. As such, this research on second language learners' communicative strategies provides an elaborate framework for analyzing how learners manage to express themselves in spite of their limited knowledge of the target language.

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Additional Information

Dissertation (M.A.) – Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, 2010.

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