Communication Strategies and Teaching Speaking

Palmer, Adrian S.; Christison, MaryAnn

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“…Achieving communicative competence in a foreign language such as English is a complex process and requires strong effort and much time. Foreign language speakers frequently encounter problems communicating because they lack the linguistic resources necessary to succeed in their communicative endeavors (Palmer & Christison, 2018). Language influences not only communication but also cognitive processes.…”

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Instructional Communication and Medium of Instruction: Content Instructors’ Perspectives

Alhamami

2023

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This paper hypothesizes that higher proficiency in the medium of instruction (MI) is a precondition for effective instructional communication (IC), with the latter being essential for higher cognitive processes, positive affects, and better performance in the learning environment. The reported study used questionnaires comprising open-ended questions to survey 341 content instructors who taught on 26 undergraduate programs with English as the MI (EMI) in a Saudi public university. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the resulting qualitative data, and the results reveal four themes. The first theme is the advantages of using the students’ mother tongue (Arabic in this case) as an MI; the findings show that doing so is related to robust IC, with the latter leading to better cognition, positive affects, and stronger performance in the learning environment. The second theme is the advantages of using EMI, which can be classified into three main areas: more educational resources, better international research collaboration, and more international job opportunities. The third theme is the use of code-switching in EMI classes because of poor IC; instructors code-switch for three purposes: cognitive, affective, and performance. The fourth theme is suggestions from participants for how to improve IC in EMI programs: the findings recommend the use of IC theory and linguistic relativity to examine EMI programs; also, collaboration among IC researchers, cognitive linguists, and EMI researchers will help understand how the MI influences students’ success; furthermore, policymakers must design curricula that consider the perspectives of content instructors and provide them with training to overcome several IC barriers in EMI programs.

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Instructional Communication and Medium of Instruction: Content Instructors’ Perspectives

Alhamami

2023

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“…During the last decades, communication strategies have become a field of research for many scholars in the field of English as a foreign language (Canale & Swain 1980;Canale, 1983;Willems, 1987;Dörnyei & Scott, 1997;Kay, 2012;Chernysh, 2015;Rosas Maldonado, 2016;Montero, 2017;Martínez-Adrián, Gallardo-del-Puerto & Basterrechea, 2017;Palmer & Christison, 2018).…”

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Teaching Communication Strategies to the Computer Programming Students

Mykytenko

Rozhak

Semeriak

2019

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The successful functioning of computer programming specialists largely depends on their level of communicative competence, so a university course of English for specific purposes (ESP), aimed at its development, can be exceedingly useful in professional training of future computer programmers. To optimise the process of ESP learning we have outlined the verbal addresser-oriented strategies (stimulating strategy, emotional activity strategy, evaluation activity strategy, cooperative strategy and strategy of self-presentation) and elaborated a system of exercises for their development. It includes the following stages: 1) studying general foreign language by means of communication strategies; 2) studying ESP by means of communication strategies. To validate the effectiveness of the system of exercise we conducted experimental teaching of the 1st and 2nd-year students of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and IT Technologies at Lviv Ivan Franko National University in 2016-2017 academic year. It involved 144 participants. Efficiency of the system of exercises has been proved on the basis of the results obtained from pre-and post-experimental assessment of students from exposure groups and reference groups. Growth rate in students from exposure groups significantly exceeded the results in students from reference groups. Thus, the efficacy of the suggested system of exercises used for developing communication strategies in computer programming students has been proved.

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Communication Strategies and Teaching Speaking

Cited by 2 publications

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Instructional Communication and Medium of Instruction: Content Instructors’ Perspectives

Instructional Communication and Medium of Instruction: Content Instructors’ Perspectives

Teaching Communication Strategies to the Computer Programming Students

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