The present study investigates communicative strategies used by a group of four upper-secondary
L2 learners of English. To be able to reach this goal, I have recorded and transcribed a conversation
between these students in order to detect natural communication. The communicative strategies I
have looked for were: pauses and hesitations, questions, code-switching and message abandonment.
Previous research on communicative strategies is divided into two different fields. These two
approaches define and classify communication strategies as either interactional or psycholinguistic.
The definition and classification of communicate strategies depends viz. on what kind of approach
is used.