Publication details
Communication strategies of good language learners - Results of the qualitative research part
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This poster introduces results of the second phase of doctoral thesis research dealing with communication strategies in speaking English as a foreign language on a sample of good language learners. The objective is to discover whether there is a relation between achievement and use of communication strategies. Additionally, good language learners‘ speaking as one of the language skills is researched, particularly their beliefs and approaches to learning and practising it in order to find ways how to support their development more effectively. The research consists of two parts, the first of which aimed to identify good language learners from the sample of 464 learners at the end of lower secondary education in the Czech Republic and discover both their reported and observed communication strategies. Also conversation analysis of their speaking tasks was conducted in order to find out more about their specific speaking behaviour. This second phase (qualitative) is focused more deeply on a sample of 9 good language learners who not only participated in the speaking tasks but also in in-depth interviews so that more information could be gained about their beliefs and approaches to speaking English as a foreign language. |