Communicative strategies employed by Thai learners of english at university level in interaction with native speakers

วิธีการสื่อความหมายโดยใช้ภาษาอังกฤษของผู้เรียนไทยระดับอุดมศึกษา

Name: Mai Ton

LCSH: Communication in foreign language education

LCSH: English language -- Study and teaching (Higher)

LCSH: Interlanguage (Language learning)

LCSH: Oral communication

Abstract: This study investigated communicative strategies (CSs)employed by Thai learners of English. It was designed to find outwhat communicative strategies Thai learners use and whether thereis any significant difference among those of relatively high andlow proficiency. The effectiveness of each strategy and factorswhich might account for its effectiveness are also examined. Fourteen second year science students of Mahidol University seven of whom had relatively high proficiency and seven of whom had relatively low proficiency were chosen to be the non-native speakers. Fourteen Americans were chosen to be the native speakers in this study twelve of them had stayed in Thailand less than two months and two had stayed in Thailand about one and a half years. Students made use of communicative strategies when narrating a story to the native speakers. it was found that these non-native speakers made use of the communicative strategies of appeal, approximation, avoidance, borrowing, clarification, contextualization, literal translation, paraphrase, partialization, and mime. Among these there are three newly-observed strategies: clarification, contextualization, and partialization. From the data analysis it was shown that students of both groups made use of the same types of CSs but there were differences in the number of occurrences of each CS used. Significant differences were found in the use of avoidance appeal borrowing literal translation and mime. CSs which were highly effective were mine and paraphrase. CSs which were not effective were avoidance and partialization. Factors influencing the effectiveness were NS sensitivity amount and correctness of information, background knowledge, and pronunciation. It is suggested that CSs should be taken into consideration and practiced in foreign language teaching in order to help NNSs improve their communication ability when facing the problem of insufficient target language knowledge.

Mahidol University. Mahidol University Library and Knowledge Center

Address: NAKHONPATHOM

Email: liwww@mahidol.ac.th

Name: Prapha Vittayarungrangsri

Role: Thesis Advisors

Name: Fennell, William G.

Role: Thesis Advisors

Name: Burgess, Robert

Role: Thesis Advisors

Created: 1989

Modified: 2561-02-19

Issued: 2018-02-17

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DegreeName: Master of Arts

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: Applied Linguistics

Grantor: Mahidol University

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