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

application of communication strategies, the researcher believes they need to be
conducted in Taiwan in the future to contribute the results to the administrators and
curriculum designers for Taiwanese EFL courses. The topics suggested were: 1. the
relationship between different variables and strategy application, 2. acceptance of
non-native like speeches, 3. training pedagogies, 4. the relation of proficiency level
and strategy application, 5. the correlation between the gender and strategy
application, 6. the application of cooperation strategy in working situation.
Different Variables in the Learners and Trainers
This study investigated the students’ perceptions for each strategy from
various aspects that the students provided. It might be very useful to collect students’
background information such as their years of learning English, motivation of
learning English, career plans, and English proficiency expectation, and examine
how these variables affect the students’ responses regarding their feelings. Other
diverse variables that might lead the students’ perceptions to be different would be
the trainers’ attitudes, personalities, gender, and age that affect the ways learners
learn and use the strategies.
Based on a larger population that offered more variables in students, trainers
would aid the researchers to distinguish the following issues: 1. “Could these
variables in students and the trainer have led to the students’ divergent angle to see
communication strategies?” 2. “Could these variables in trainers cause the students to
use the communication strategies with different characteristics?” Based on a more
complete project with more variables, the various research findings can be expected,
which would contribute as suggestions for English educators and administrators who
design the curriculum for conversation courses. The reason is that the findings given
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