An Analysis on Communication strategies Employed by Indonesian English as Foreign Language Adult Students

Abstract

As an EFL country, English Language Teaching (ELT) in Indonesia should be more focused on developing students’ strategy, particularly communication strategy (CS). The reason is because these students are triggered by instrumental motivation in learning English. However, awareness toward CS should also be possessed by teachers so they can develop students’ CS through certain way. Unfortunately, it is rarely found English teacher who is aware about this notion. Thus, this study was conducted to provide data about initial CS of adult students in private university in Bali. According to experts, this age level has already got fully developed cognitive and linguistic capabilities. Thus, they are considered to be able to employ and use CS well. Through this study it is found that they possess 20 initial CSs out of 38 CSs from the referred taxonomy. The findings of this study could be beneficial for the development and novelty of future research concerning with CS and to enhance teachers’ awareness toward CS, particularly the ones who establish private course offering intensive speaking program as well as for the lecturers in the concerned university.

Keywords

• Communication Strategies
• EFL
• Adult Students
• English Language Teaching