International Conference on Education and Language (ICEL)
2016: 4th ICEL

ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN ESP CLASS OF MATHEMATIC STUDY PROGRAM

Rizky Ayuningtyas (University of Lampung)
Hery Yufrizal (University of Lampung)



Article Info

Publish Date
21 May 2016

Abstract

This study examines communication strategies mostly appeared during the learning process at an ESP class, the code switch occurred during the presentation, and the meaning of the code switch that the students used. This research was non experimental descriptive study. Samples in this study were 20 fresh college learners of mathematic study program in a class at University of Lampung. The results show that of the 12 Communications Strategies (CSs) available, the students used 9 CSs. The researcher divided CSs that is used by the students into 4 levels, High frequency strategies (code switching (36,28%),  time-gaining strategies (30,37%), and appeal for help (16,03%)), Mid frequency strategies (non-linguistic signal (6,32%) and literal translation (4,64%)), low frequency strategies (message abandonment (2,53%), topic avoidance (2,11%), circumlocution (0,84%), and approximation (0,84%)), non existence strategies (use of all purpose words, word coinage, and foreignizing).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

icel

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Subject

Education

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This Proceedings contains papers submitted and presented at the International Conference on Education and Language in 2013 and 2014. 2nd International Conference on Language Education hosted by the University of Bandar Lampung on 20-22 May 2014, at the graduate campus, the University of Bandar ...