Asian Journal of Distance Education

Yazarlar: Maria N. CUSIPAG, Yen-Yen CHEN

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Distance Education

Özet: The research study investigated the oral communication strategies used by forty-eight Taiwanese students of Shu Zen College of Medicine and Management (SZMC) majoring in English. The students were allowed to have a cell phone conversation with a partner within three minutes. A list of topics was presented to each pair five minutes before the conversation started. Their conversations were video-taped and transcribed , and a frequency count of their communication strategies was conducted. Results of the study showed that both first-year and fourth-year students used direct, interactional, and indirect types of communication strategies. The fourth-year students, however, had more communication strategies and the frequency of some strategies was much higher. A significant relationship existed between the choice of communication strategies and the year level of the students.

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