Communication strategies

Compared to traditional EFL learners, CLIL students…

• Use their L1 less frequently

• Use their L1 all the time

• Use their L1 more frequently

Whats is the main research line of this study?

• Lexical availability

• Communication strategies

• Applied linguistics

• Self-correlation

From the psycholinguistic point of view, communication strategies are treated as:

• A collective mental response to a problem

• A shared enterprise in which both speaker and hearer are involved

• An individual mental response to a problem

Answer explanation

Communication strategies are treated as a shared enterprise in which both speaker and hearer are involved from interactional perspective

Less proficient learners tend to use more communication strategies due to limited command of…

• Interlaguage

• Target language

• Source language

One of our research questions is:

• What type of strategies do 5th and 6th grade CLIL learners prefer?

• How many communication strategies do 5th and 6th learners use in an oral production?

• What is the amount of self-reported use of avoidance in 5th and 6th grade CLIL learners?

Answer explanation

The second one is:

What is the amount of self-reported use of Communication Strategies in 5th and 6th grade CLIL learners?

“Go to the bosq” instead of “go to the forest” is a clear example of:

• Calque

• Borrowing

• Foreignizing

• Morphological creativity

What are the two most preferred strategies in both groups?

• Appeal for assistance and miming

• Paraphrasing and borrowing

• Appeal for assistance and paraphrasing

Foreignizing and claque are:

• L1-based strategies

• L2-based strategies

Some factors that affect the use of Communication Strategies are:

• Personality, gender, the interlanguage

• Gender, personality and the proficiency level in the target language

• Personality, anxiety and task-related features such as cognitive demands

Answer explanation

1. Proficiency level in the target language.

2. Influence off the native language.

3. Personality.

4. Learning and cognitive style.

5. Gender.

6. Task-related features such as cognitive demands.

7. Time constrains and interlocutor´s role.

8. L1 strategic behaviour.

What are communication strategies?

• All the devices language learners used to overcome language difficulties when they try to communicate in a foreign language with a reduced interlaguage system

• All the devices used to communicate in a written way

• All the devices used to communicate orally