CAN COMMUNICATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES ENHANCE ESL SPEAKING COMPETENCE?

Communication, communication strategy, communication goal, communicative competence, ESLs’ speaking skills, types of communication, Communicative Competence, English Language Teaching, Autonomous Learning Model.

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This current article discusses that Communication strategy (CS) is defined as a person's attempt to find a way to fill the gap between their communication efforts and the available language resources in the near future (Maleki, 2007). In addition communicative competence is crucial for language learner since this is the goal of language learning. A teacher should master learning strategies and learning model in order to enhance students’ communicative competence. Although there are other definitions of communication strategies, the basic idea remains the same. For example, Faerch and Kasper (1983a) define CS as “potentially conscious plans” that are used by a person to solve a problem in order to achieve a specific communication goal.
Communication strategies are considered to play an important role in the development of strategic competence (e.g. Faucette, 2001); in this way, communication strategies can be defined within the strategic competence.