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

the respondents assisted the researchers in disclosing more accurately how the
respondents felt when learning the communication strategies, and how they valued
the skills in the 5 communication strategies.
Face-to-Face Interview in Privacy
In order to ensure confidentiality, students had been asked to feel free to
express their comments and feedback on learning and applying communication
strategies through face-to-face interviews in an isolated coffee room provided by the
Department of Language and Literature for teachers and students to practice English
communication. In this conversation coffee room, a set of couches and a round table
with a lamp and three chairs provided space where teachers and students interacted in
English comfortably and privately. According to a questionnaire of 5 open-ended
questions associated with students’ reactions while learning the communication
strategies, students should feel more emancipated when giving opinions openly in
privacy. In other words, through the face-to-face interview with individuals, the
confidentiality of this study was increased because the students deeply expressed
their feedback from the learning experiences and answered questions in an isolated
room in a relaxing way.
Assumptions of the Study
1. The researcher assumed that the students detected the foreign-talk
characteristics of the speech production generated through communication
strategies and that the students had some comments on this kind of foreign-like
language.
2. The students might perceive that the communication strategies were effective in
raising their strategic competence, but the training might not be necessary due to
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