Investigating Iranian EFL Teachers' Verbal Communication Strategies. EFL Teacher's Verbal Communication Strategies at Elementary vs. Advanced EFL Classrooms

      Аннотация: Communication strategies are systematic techniques employed by the speaker to express their meaning when faced with some difficulty. Some researchers see communication strategies as interactional processes between learners and interlocutors. Various studies have laid emphasis on the nature and patterns of strategy employment in EFL context. Most studies, however, tend to examine those strategies in learner performance and it seems that another important dimension of communication strategies in interaction has been neglected

Ключевые слова: classroom discourse, communication strategies, interaction