The oral communicative strategies of university engineering students in the South-Western Nigeria
This study was an attempt to explore the oral communicative strategies employed by a group of South-Western Nigerian undergraduate engineering students to navigate communication breakdowns during English interactions. A survey adapted from Alahmed (2017) was administered to a sample of 316 responden...
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Universiti Teknologi MARA
2025
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/125513/1/125513.pdf https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/125513/ https://journal.uitm.edu.my/ojs/index.php/IJMAL/index |
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| Summary: | This study was an attempt to explore the oral communicative strategies employed by a group of South-Western Nigerian undergraduate engineering students to navigate communication breakdowns during English interactions. A survey adapted from Alahmed (2017) was administered to a sample of 316 respondents across five public universities in South-Western Nigeria. Using The descriptive analysis reveal that the participants use a variety of oral communicative strategies (ranging from avoidance, paraphrase, conscious transfer, appeal for assistance and mime, stalling mechanisms, self-repair devices and meaning negotiation strategies). Mime and negotiation for meaning were frequently used, while word coinage was least employed. Further research is recommended to generalize findings to a broader Nigerian ESL learner population. This study aims to inform pedagogical practices for university-level engineering students, language education policymakers, and language instructors on integrating communication strategies to enhance communicative competence. |
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