Improving intercultural communication skills of Japanese EFL learners : The effects of strategy inventory training

在本研究中，对交际策略（CS）和语言功能（如拒绝和不同意）进行了大规模调查。参与者是从小学到大学的亚洲英语学习者，包括日语、汉语、泰语和越南语。为了调查和探索这些国家是如何进行计算机科学教学和使用的，我们分析了英语教科书和国家课程。同时，对英语母语者和亚洲英语学习者在进行交际任务时的英语对话进行录像，并从CS使用的角度进行转录。因此，根据国家以及个人和文化的差异，在CS的使用和学习者的CS意识方面存在一些明显的差异。

In this study, a large-scale survey on communication strategies (CS) and language functions used such as refusal and disagreement was carried out. The participants were Asian EFL learners from primary to tertiary levels including Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. In order to investigate and explore how CS are instructed and used in those countries, English textbooks and national curriculums were analyzed. Also, English conversations between native speakers of English and Asian learners of English were videotaped while doing the communicative tasks and transcribed from the perspective of CS use. As a result, several distinct differences in CS use and learners' consciousness of CS were observed according to the countries as well as individual and cultural differences.