Use of Communication Strategies by Thai EFL Learners
Use of Communication Strategies by Thai EFL Learners
Use of Communication Strategies by Thai EFL Learners
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Pedagogical implications<br />
It is recommended that it is useful to incorporate a formal instruction on CSs along with some<br />
awareness-raising activities in school curriculumn. In this way, students could develop their<br />
strategic competence through using various kinds <strong>of</strong> useful communication strategies as some<br />
previous researchers (e.g., Dornyei, 1995; Nakatani, 2005; Le, 2006; Kongsom, 2009) have<br />
confirmed that CS training in the classroom could literally help students to communicate<br />
more effectively, raise students’ awareness <strong>of</strong> CSs, and enhance students’ confidence in<br />
speaking English.<br />
Suggestions for further research<br />
The future research should investigate the teachability <strong>of</strong> communication strategies as the<br />
results would give more ideas <strong>of</strong> how communication strategies could be taught in the <strong>EFL</strong><br />
classrooms and integrated in the <strong>EFL</strong> syllabus in the future. As the results <strong>of</strong> the present<br />
study showed that task type has an impact on the use <strong>of</strong> communication strategies, various<br />
types <strong>of</strong> task should be included in the CS training. The results would shed more light on how<br />
teachers can design the appropriate tasks, which motivate the elicitation <strong>of</strong> various<br />
communication strategies to help the students overcome the communication difficulties.<br />
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