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Investigating oral communication strategy use qualitatively: risks of obtaining inaccurate data

Oral communication strategy (OCS) literature reveals that the vast majority of relevant researcher has adopted qualitative approaches to identify the OCSs used by second language (L2)/ foreign language (FL) learners.The problem in investigating the OCSs through solely qualitative techniques lies...

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Main Authors: Al Saqqaf, Asmaa, Bidin, Siti Jamilah, Shabdin, Ahmad Affendi, Din, Wardatul Akmam, Swanto, Suyansah
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Published: Society for Science and Education, United Kingdom 2016
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P Philology. Linguistics
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spelling my.uum.repo.223632017-06-12T00:35:29Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/22363/ Investigating oral communication strategy use qualitatively: risks of obtaining inaccurate data Al Saqqaf, Asmaa Bidin, Siti Jamilah Shabdin, Ahmad Affendi Din, Wardatul Akmam Swanto, Suyansah P Philology. Linguistics Oral communication strategy (OCS) literature reveals that the vast majority of relevant researcher has adopted qualitative approaches to identify the OCSs used by second language (L2)/ foreign language (FL) learners.The problem in investigating the OCSs through solely qualitative techniques lies in the fact that participants, when performing limited qualitative tasks, cannot employ all the OCSs they actually utilize in reality or have in their own OCS repertoire. Additionally, it is argued that participants could be aware of those OCSs if asked consciously by answering a questionnaire.Thus, it could be hypothesized that numerous OCSs failed to be detected in the past research because of the ‘absence’ of another technique that could have elicited all the OCSs that must have been existent in the participants’repertoire.Therefore, this paper sheds light on this problematic issue that many OCS researchers may not be aware of, urging them to think before deciding to adopt only qualitative instruments in an OCS use investigation.It also attempts to suggest some recommendations that may hopefully help address this dilemma. Society for Science and Education, United Kingdom 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/22363/1/ASSRJ%203%2012%202016%2076%2080.pdf Al Saqqaf, Asmaa and Bidin, Siti Jamilah and Shabdin, Ahmad Affendi and Din, Wardatul Akmam and Swanto, Suyansah (2016) Investigating oral communication strategy use qualitatively: risks of obtaining inaccurate data. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 3 (12). pp. 76-80. ISSN 2055-0286 http://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.312.2339 doi:10.14738/assrj.312.2339
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topic P Philology. Linguistics
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Al Saqqaf, Asmaa
Bidin, Siti Jamilah
Shabdin, Ahmad Affendi
Din, Wardatul Akmam
Swanto, Suyansah
Investigating oral communication strategy use qualitatively: risks of obtaining inaccurate data
description Oral communication strategy (OCS) literature reveals that the vast majority of relevant researcher has adopted qualitative approaches to identify the OCSs used by second language (L2)/ foreign language (FL) learners.The problem in investigating the OCSs through solely qualitative techniques lies in the fact that participants, when performing limited qualitative tasks, cannot employ all the OCSs they actually utilize in reality or have in their own OCS repertoire. Additionally, it is argued that participants could be aware of those OCSs if asked consciously by answering a questionnaire.Thus, it could be hypothesized that numerous OCSs failed to be detected in the past research because of the ‘absence’ of another technique that could have elicited all the OCSs that must have been existent in the participants’repertoire.Therefore, this paper sheds light on this problematic issue that many OCS researchers may not be aware of, urging them to think before deciding to adopt only qualitative instruments in an OCS use investigation.It also attempts to suggest some recommendations that may hopefully help address this dilemma.
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author Al Saqqaf, Asmaa
Bidin, Siti Jamilah
Shabdin, Ahmad Affendi
Din, Wardatul Akmam
Swanto, Suyansah
author_facet Al Saqqaf, Asmaa
Bidin, Siti Jamilah
Shabdin, Ahmad Affendi
Din, Wardatul Akmam
Swanto, Suyansah
author_sort Al Saqqaf, Asmaa
title Investigating oral communication strategy use qualitatively: risks of obtaining inaccurate data
title_short Investigating oral communication strategy use qualitatively: risks of obtaining inaccurate data
title_full Investigating oral communication strategy use qualitatively: risks of obtaining inaccurate data
title_fullStr Investigating oral communication strategy use qualitatively: risks of obtaining inaccurate data
title_full_unstemmed Investigating oral communication strategy use qualitatively: risks of obtaining inaccurate data
title_sort investigating oral communication strategy use qualitatively: risks of obtaining inaccurate data
publisher Society for Science and Education, United Kingdom
publishDate 2016
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/22363/1/ASSRJ%203%2012%202016%2076%2080.pdf
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