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Sheila Busteed – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic creates physical barriers and raises issues about online learning and course design. These must be overcome in order to continue teaching three English language support papers in a transnational education programme. This autoethnography explores online communication strategies and their effect on students' learning…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Experience, Communication Strategies
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Feng, Ruiling; Shirvani, Sheida – Research-publishing.net, 2021
Compensatory strategies play an important role in second language (L2) processing because of limited language knowledge and ensuing anxiety and could help assure understanding and void communication breakdown. Previous studies about compensatory strategies largely adopt laboratory settings and neglect the strategies in authentic oral…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Mandarin Chinese, Undergraduate Students, Virtual Classrooms
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Zhou, Hong; Feng, Yufang – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
This study explores the status quo of speaking strategies used by Chinese High School Students of International Department by using both questionnaire and interview. The participants were 90 second-year Chinese High School Students of International Department, and then the data were analyzed by SPSS 18.0. The study yields certain results. First,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Bodomo, Adams; Che, Dewei; Dong, Hongjie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The presence of Africans in China has been phenomenal since the late 1990s. In recent years, there has been a dramatic uptick in people from Africa coming to the major cities of China such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Yiwu, Shanghai, and Beijing. They are in the process of building linguistic, cultural, and economic bridges between their source…
Descriptors: Retailing, African Culture, Immigrants, Metropolitan Areas
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Zhou, Jessie; Huang, Li-Shih – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2018
This study was designed to examine the reported and observed communication strategies used by Chinese English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) graduate students in electrical engineering and education in performing informal debate tasks. The strategies were elicited through strategy inventories, post-task strategy recalls, and task performances.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Engineering Education, Communication Strategies
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Ren, Wei – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
Although there has been a steady rise of empirical studies investigating pragmatic strategies in oral communication using English as a lingua franca (ELF), there have been relatively few published studies about pragmatic strategies in written ELF communication. Email, despite its current popularity, has scarcely been examined in ELF communication.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pragmatics, Written Language
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Weizheng, Zheng – English Language Teaching, 2019
Foreign language teaching highlights the cultivation of the learners' communicative competence, because the main purpose of learning a foreign language is to use the target language to communicate. However, many students in higher institutions in China cannot speak English fluently after having learned English for more than ten years, although…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Communication, Second Language Instruction
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Wang, Dianjian; Lai, Hongling; Leslie, Michael – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
The present study aims to investigate Chinese English learners' ability to use communication strategies (CSs). The subjects are put in a relatively real English referential communication setting and the analyses of the research data show that Chinese English learners, when encountering problems in foreign language (FL) communication, are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Goh, Christine C. M. – Language Teaching, 2017
This article is a personal view of the application of results from three areas of research that I believe are relevant to developing second language speaking in the classroom: task repetition, pre-task planning and communication strategies. I will discuss these three areas in terms of level of research application--where research is not applied…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Second Language Learning, Communication Strategies, Oral Language
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Wang, Weiwei; Xu, Xiaoqin – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study employs corpus analytical tools to carry out a systematic study on Chinese Science and Engineering Majors' (SEMs') use of self-repair in their oral English. The study aims to find out the overall feature of using self-repair by SEMs and to see if there exists statistically significant difference of using self-repair across different…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
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Cheng, Li – The EUROCALL Review, 2016
The development of students' professional skills is an important issue in higher education in China. This research reports a 3-month study investigating engineering students' communication strategies (CSs) while they were interacting to do a 12-week mobile-assisted learning project, i.e., "Organizing and Attending a Model International…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Zhao, Tao; Intaraprasert, Channarong – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study was intended to explore the relationship of gender, perceived language ability with communication strategy use by tourism-oriented EFL learners studying at the universities in the Southwest China to improve and maintain their oral communication in English. The Communication Strategy Questionnaire was used for data collection, and the…
Descriptors: Tourism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Questionnaires
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Zhao, Zhongbao – International Education Studies, 2014
This paper investigated the current situation of oral English teaching, learning, and assessment at the tertiary level in China through needs analysis and explored the implications for the development of a diagnostic speaking test. Through random sampling, the researcher administered both a student questionnaire and a teacher questionnaire to over…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests
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Lai, Hongling – English Language Teaching, 2010
This paper explores the gender effect on the use of communication strategies (CSs). The study collected the data of 36 Chinese EFL learners when they fulfilled communicative tasks as the basis for analysis. The statistical results show that no sex-related significant, direct effect was identified on the frequency and types of CS use, but the sex…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Communication Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zhao, Ying – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study aims at investigating meaning negotiation and communication strategy use among nonnative speakers of English in text chat and videoconferencing. Learners in a Chinese and a Japanese university participated in text chats and videoconferences to discuss culture-related topics using English as the common language. Text chat scripts and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Strategies, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
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