Communication Strategies Employed by Omani Foundation Year Students

Al-Siyabi, M. S.

Abstract:

Omani students study English to be able to speak it but still they did not manage it well. Littlewood argues that to be an efficient communicator, a learner needs “a repertoire of linguistic items” and “a repertoire of strategies” (1981, p.3). The ultimate purposes of this paper are to identify the communication strategies that Omani foundation year students use and to explore the way they were taught about these strategies or introduced to. The study also shed light on the Omani students’ willingness to improve their ability to communicate and how students can practice using communication strategies in class. The method followed in collecting the data was “semi-structured” intervew (Drever, 1995, p. 1). For the sampling, “connivance sampling” was conducted (Gravetter and Forzano, 2009, p. 141). The findings of this study show the implementation of particular types of communication strategies among Omani students. It also shows controversial views regarding the presentations of this topic in the classroom.

Keywords: Communcation strategies, communication problems, Omani students, taxonomy

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  • Al-Siyabi, M. S. (2014). Communication Strategies Employed by Omani Foundation Year Students. International Journal of Teaching and Education, 2(3), 1-44.

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