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    Communication Strategies Used by English Major Third Year Students: Debre Markos Univeersity in Focus
    (Addis Ababa University, 2011-05) Tibebu Anteneh ; Tamene Kitila
    The purpose of this study was to investigate communication strategies used by English major third year students at Debre Markos Univers ity. The study specifically tried to see the most and least commonly used strategies by students, and to examine the role of most commonly used strategies on students' communicative skill. The study involved 90 students.In order to meet these objectives, data were collected through questionnaire and classroom observation with the help of video recording. The data were analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science).The results of the study s howed that students mos t frequently used seven strategies out of the seventeen. These were: Time gaining, Asking for help, Substitution, Function and Form avoidance, Literal translation and Description strategies. On the other hand, Message abandonment, Language switching, Over Generalization and Word -coinage were the le a s t frequently used strategies.Besides, Time gaining, Asking for help, Literal translation and Function avoidance were helpful strategies on students' communicative skill. On the contrary, neither the classroom obse rvation nor the video-recorded data show the role of Form avoidance, Substitution and Description strategies on students' communicative skill.On the basis of these results, it was recommended that Students s hould be introduced to various communication s trategies in different activities. Students would benefit more if they u sed more Achievement strategies which help them to stay in communication and improve their communication skill while they speak in English rather than avoidance strategies. This is because in A'Joidance stategy, students avoid words or expressions. In such cases, students might ignore important events that might be expected by their instructors. For example, in classroom presentation if students use achievement strategies, they would see possible ways of expressing those ideas.