A Dissertation by GRACE HUI-CHIN LIN Submitted to the Office of ...

communication problems due to their limited linguistics knowledge and achieve their
communicative goal.
This study emphasized the understandability in English communication,
because English had become a common tool of international communication long
time ago. However, Taiwanese adult language learners might not be able to
communicate easily and catch up the tempo of the world communication. Hence, this
study emphasized the significance of strategy application. Crystal (1997) argued that
English would be a main tool of communication on this globe. Moreover, McKay
(2002) also emphasized the compressibility in speeches might be more important
than fluency. In this global age of 21 st century, communication strategies should be
very applicable and important for adult learners in Taiwan.
Recommendations for Further Research Topics
This study had been conducted by a qualitative method, which is seldom
found in the field of communication strategy. Besides suggesting more qualitative
methods should be applied to investigate students’ understanding, agreement, or the
problems of using communication strategy, this study also recommended some
important issues mentioned or not mentioned by the students. Based on the literature
review and the collected data of this study, recommendations for future research
topics were discovered. Through reviewing the seven volunteers’ responses in the
interview, the significance of these suggested topics were highlighted.
Some of the following recommendations for future studies might have been
completed by previous researchers in the field of communication strategy, but none
of them yet had been conducted in Taiwan. Since different factors of languages and
traditions exist among different countries that influence the people’s choice and
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