Enhancing Oral Presentation Skills of ESL Students: The Use of Oral Communication Strategies

Idrus, Hairuzila

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0908-2_37

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“…In addition, Spearman's correlation coefficients used to examine the relationship between two variables revealed that there was a statistically significant relationship between oral CS used with the participants' oral proficiency. The findings above were consistent with the study by Idrus (2016) who also employed Nakatani's OCSI in the data analysis in identifying the CS used by undergraduate students when delivering oral presentations. The results showed that good presenters used more oral CS compared to average presenters.…”

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Use of Fillers as a Communication Strategy in Oral Interactions

Awang¹,

Hassan²,

Abdullah³

et al. 2022

IJARBSS

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Being competent in English is an advantage to ESL speakers, particularly in the context of job interviews. While many learners of English as a second language (ESL) are struggling when using the language, Communication Strategies (CS) appear as helpful tools to overcome ESL speakers' difficulties in conveying their intended messages. CS generally refers to efforts made by ESL speakers to tackle various communication problems in the course of their oral interactions. Among the various types of CS, fillers are widely used due to its function as a floor-holding strategy in oral interactions. This study aims to investigate the use of fillers as CS by candidates of real academic staff recruitment interviews and explore their functions in oral communication. The data of this qualitative study were obtained from observations made on interview sessions involving interview panelists and the candidates, consisting of 19 Malay ESL speakers. The interview sessions were conducted in the English language at UiTM Machang campus in Kelantan, Malaysia. With the help of NVivo software (version 12), the researchers identified the types of fillers that occurred in the oral interactions and classified them according to Dörnyei and Scott's (1997) taxonomy of CS; lexicalised fillers and hesitation gambits. The results revealed that fillers were extensively used by ESL speakers in the interviews as a processing time pressure-related strategy. They occurred when the speakers were trying to fill in the gaps in communication. Undeniably, the strategy helps to maintain conversations and prevent communication breakdown, hence providing a significant contribution to speech and signal relationships between the speaker, the listener, and the discourse. Hence, the use of fillers should not be viewed negatively and totally avoided. As the speakers gradually increase their L2 competency, it is hoped that they would have more control over their use of fillers and hence, resulting in smoother oral communication.

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Use of Fillers as a Communication Strategy in Oral Interactions

Awang¹,

Hassan²,

Abdullah³

et al. 2022

IJARBSS

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“…The findings above are consistent with the study by Idrus (2016) in identifying the CS used by undergraduate students when delivering oral presentations. This study also used the Oral Communication Strategies Inventory (OCSI) developed by Nakatani (2006) to identify the strategies used when delivering their oral presentations.…”

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Fillers as Communication Strategies Among English Second Language Speakers in Job Interviews

Hassan¹,

Awang²,

Abdullah³

2021

IJEL

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Good mastery of English in job interviews does not only give an added value to the second language (L2) interview candidates but also increases the chances to be employed. However, not all English as Second Language (ESL) speakers are competent in using the language. In this regard, communication strategies (CS) are useful for L2 speakers in overcoming the difficulties in communicating their intended messages. The objective of this study is to examine the use of fillers as CS by interviewing candidates of academic staff recruitment at Universiti Teknologi MARA Machang, Kelantan, in Malaysia. The data of this qualitative study were obtained from observations through video-recorded oral interactions between candidates and panellists during interview sessions. The NVivo software (version 12) was used to help the researcher in analysing the oral data. The results revealed that the use of fillers stipulated in Dörnyei and Scott’s (1997) taxonomy of CS was extensively used by ESL speakers in real job interviews as a processing time pressure-related strategy when the speaker was trying to fill in the gaps between their limited resources and message conveyance in L2. In conclusion, fillers are useful to L2 speakers by helping them to maintain conversations and prevent communication breakdown.

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“…The results from the OCSI questionnaire indicate that participants used nonverbal strategies most frequently (e.g., Idrus, 2016) and message abandonment least frequently (e.g., Ounis, 2016). The results from the identified communication strategies used in the informal debate tasks and the post-task recall, however, suggest that participants were frequent users of fluency-and accuracy-oriented strategies but rarely used translation strategies.…”

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An exploration of strategies used by Chinese graduate students in electrical engineering and education: integrating questionnaire, task performance, and post-task recall data

Zhou

Huang

2018

Asian. J. Second. Foreign. Lang. Educ.

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This study was designed to examine the reported and observed communication strategies used by Chinese English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) graduate students in electrical engineering and education in performing informal debate tasks. The strategies were elicited through strategy inventories, post-task strategy recalls, and task performances. The results revealed eight categories of communication strategies, with fluency-oriented strategies used most frequently and translation least frequently. Differences in using communication strategies were also found between advanced and high-intermediate learners, while the use of one individual strategy-clarifying stance-also notably differed between the two disciplines. Overall, results from nonparametric tests revealed significant positive relationships between certain categories of communication strategy use and learners' speaking performance. The findings and their implications are discussed both to inform practice and to encourage further research about the communication strategies used by EAL learners who are graduate students.

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Enhancing Oral Presentation Skills of ESL Students: The Use of Oral Communication Strategies

Cited by 8 publications

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Use of Fillers as a Communication Strategy in Oral Interactions

Use of Fillers as a Communication Strategy in Oral Interactions

Fillers as Communication Strategies Among English Second Language Speakers in Job Interviews

An exploration of strategies used by Chinese graduate students in electrical engineering and education: integrating questionnaire, task performance, and post-task recall data

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