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Muñoz Julio, Wilfrido; Ramírez Contreras, Odilia – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2018
This article is about an Action Research project carried out at a public Institution in Sincelejo, Colombia. The research purpose was to determine the effect of transactional communication strategies (TCS) on pre-service teachers' speaking skill. In a diagnostic stage, problems in the speaking skill were identified then an action stage was carried…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Action Research, Elementary School Teachers, Bilingualism
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Karbalaei, Alireza; Negin Taji, Tania – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
The present study aimed to determine the compensation strategies used by Iranian elementary EFL learners across the speaking skill. The participants of this study were a sample of 120 EFL elementary male and female learners whose ages ranged between 11 and 25 at a language institute in Rostam, Iran. The main participants were homogenized through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rodríguez Cervantes, Carmen A.; Roux Rodriguez, Ruth – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2012
When language learners do not know how to say a word in English, they can communicate effectively by using their hands, imitating sounds, inventing new words, or describing what they mean. These ways of communicating are communication strategies (CSs). EFL teachers are not always aware of the importance of teaching communication strategies to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Communication Strategies, Nonverbal Communication