Transcript Developing an oral communication strategy inventory

Developing an oral
communication strategy
inventory
Yasuo Nakatani
The Modern Language Journal
90,ii, 2006
Questions to be discussed
 What variable is measured in this
questionnaire?
 Definition (conceptual vs. operational)
 How is the questionnaire developed?
 How many stages did the researcher go
through for constructing the
questionnaire?
Question One
 Variable
 Oral communication strategy
 achievement strategies
or compensatory
Oral communication
strategies
strategies
specifically focus on strategic
 reduction strategies
or avoidance
strategies
behaviors
that learners
use
when facing communication
problems during interactional
tasks
Three stages
 Stage One
Use an open-ended questionnaire to elicit
a variety of strategy items
 Stage Two
 Pilot study (400 subjects)
 Stage Three
Validation (400 subjects)
Stage One
 Selecting questionnaire items
 use an open-ended questionnaire
 complete the statements such as “ When I
am speaking English, I pay attention to….,”
“ When I am listening to other people
speaking English, I try to…”
 80 students in the first semester EFL
lessons
Stage Two
 Constructing a pilot test questionnaire

40 items for strategies for coping with speaking
problems
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30 items for strategies for coping with listening problems

Use the five-point likert-scale
 400 university students
 8 items from speaking and 4 items from listening
were deleted due to their low item-total correlation
Stage Three
 The final factor analysis
 400 university students responded to
the questionnaire (45% men and 55%
women)
 Made a factor analysis
Oral communication problems
 What communication problems might
people encounter in interaction?
As a speaker
 Your partner cannot understand you.
 You are not familiar with the topic.
 You do not have proper language to express what
you want to say
 I feel nervous while speaking.
 You find the question difficult to answer.
 You often produce grammatical errors in your
speaking
As a listener
You cannot understand your
partner.
Your partner uses difficult language
You are not familiar with the topic.
 I feel nervous while listening.
You cannot understand your
partner.
22. I ask for repetition…
21. I make a clarification request…
20. I ask the speaker to use easy words…
19. I asks the speaker to slow down…
23. I make clear to the speaker what I
haven’t been able to understand.
You cannot understand your
partner.


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I try to translate into L1 little by little.
I pretend to understand it.
I only pay attention to what I have
understood.
An open-ended questionnaire
 When I am speaking English, I try to…
 When I am listening to other people
speaking English, I try to…
 What helps me most when I
communicate with others is…