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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis is a study about the types of Communication Strategies used by thirty
students of English Department of Petra Christian University with different levels
of Communication Apprehension. The writer chooses this topic because she
observes that many students experience Communication Apprehension, which can
influence the use of types of Communication Strategies. The writer attempts to
find out the types of Communication Strategies used by students with high and
low levels of Communication Apprehension and the types of Communication
Strategies mostly used by them. In addition, she intends to find out whether
students with high level of Communication Apprehension use more numbers of
Communication Strategies rather than those with low level of Communication
Apprehension.
Language Anxiety by Horwitz et al. and Brown, Communication
Apprehension by Daly and McCroskey, and Communication Strategies by
Dornyei are the theories used in this study.
The data are collected in a classroom created by the writer from two
tasks-pictorial story telling and pictorial instruction.
The writer finds that there are twelve types of Communication Strategies
used by students with high Communication le vel; repetition, approximation, and
using fillers are the Communication Strategies mostly used by them. There are
thirteen types of Communication Strategies used by students with low
Communication Apprehension level; and approximation, using fillers, and
repetition are the Communication Strategies mostly used by them. It is also true
that students with high Communication Apprehension level use more numbers of
Communication Strategies than those with low Communication Apprehension
level.
Overall, the writer finds that actually English Foreign Language Learners
of English Department of Petra Christian University experience Communication
Apprehension in different levels, high and low, which influences the use of types
of Communication Strategies they employ in oral presentation.