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APPENDIX H<br />

Consent Form (In English)<br />

(A Case Study <strong>of</strong> Seven Freshman Non-English Majors’ Feelings about<br />

Learning Five Communication Strategies in an English as a Foreign<br />

Language (EFL) Class at One University in Taiwan)<br />

I have been asked <strong>to</strong> participate in a research study about communication strategies. I<br />

was selected <strong>to</strong> be a possible participant. I will be taught <strong>to</strong> use five communication<br />

strategies and interviewed. The purpose <strong>of</strong> this study is <strong>to</strong> discover <strong>the</strong> Taiwanese<br />

EFL learners’ feelings <strong>of</strong> learning five communication strategies.<br />

If I agree <strong>to</strong> be in this study, I will be asked <strong>to</strong> talk about my feelings <strong>to</strong>ward each<br />

skill in five communication strategies after training. I will meet <strong>the</strong> researcher for 30<br />

meetings for 20 minutes in ten weeks, and video taped in interviews for 90 minutes<br />

after five and ten weeks <strong>of</strong> training. The benefit <strong>of</strong> participation is <strong>the</strong><br />

communication strategies might raise my communicative competence, And, I will<br />

receive free learning materials in order <strong>to</strong> learn communication strategies. The risk I<br />

take is I might feel uncomfortable in front <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> video camera during interviews.<br />

Also, I might feel <strong>the</strong> communication strategies are not effective in raising my<br />

communicative competence.<br />

This study is confidential. The records <strong>of</strong> this study will be kept private. The advisor<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> researcher is Dr. Patricia J. Larke, a pr<strong>of</strong>essor at Texas A&M University in U.<br />

S., America. Dr. Larke will have access <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> records if she needs <strong>to</strong> use <strong>the</strong> video on<br />

tape for educational purposes. Her ways <strong>of</strong> contact is plarke@tamu.edu, phone<br />

number: 979 693-0330. Moreover, <strong>the</strong> consent forms will be filed in <strong>the</strong><br />

collabora<strong>to</strong>r’s, Douglas S. Jarvie, locked s<strong>to</strong>rage at Tunghai University in Taiwan,<br />

886 4-2359-0253, ext. 37, 38.<br />

My decision whe<strong>the</strong>r or not <strong>to</strong> participate will not affect my current or future<br />

relations with Tunghai University. If I decide <strong>to</strong> participate, I am free <strong>to</strong> refuse <strong>to</strong><br />

answer any <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> questions that may make me uncomfortable. I can withdraw at any<br />

time with my relations with <strong>the</strong> university. I can contact Grace Hui Chin Lin <strong>by</strong> (04)<br />

728-3321 (Taiwan)/ (979) 260-4690 (USA) with my questions about this study.<br />

This research study has been reviewed <strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong> Institutional Review Board-Human<br />

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