Thai students have less chance to speak
English outside the classroom. The goal of the current study is to identify strategies to
help students develop their English speaking ability.
In addition, they were too shy to speak English and
they lacked confidence in speaking English although they had studied English for a
long time.
One possible explanation was that they were not fluent enough to speak English
continuously and successfully so they paused for a long time and finally stopped
talking.
the CS instruction was useful because it
helped them speak English fluently.
This paper examines trends in second language (L2) communication strategy (CS) research to date. We give a comprehensive review of the relevant literature from the last two decades, with particular consideration of the different ways in which CSs have been defined and of corresponding influences on the organization of strategy taxonomies. We first outline the history of CS research and discuss problem-orientedness and consciousness as defining criteria for CSs. We then offer a comprehensive list of strategic language devices and describe the major CS taxonomies, noting key trends, with special attention to current and future research orientations.