Communication strategies in second-language acquisition

In the course of learning a <a href="/facts/Second_language/aUqAzeNK">second language</a>, learners will frequently encounter <a href="/facts/Communication/EGEkchsT">communication</a> problems caused by a lack of <a href="/facts/Language/IRcTok2q">linguistic resources</a>. Communication strategies are strategies that learners use to overcome these problems in order to convey their intended <a href="/facts/Meaning_(linguistics)/1L4WwLAP">meaning</a>. Strategies used may include <a href="/facts/Paraphrasing/YQuQNPcn">paraphrasing</a>, substitution, coining new words, switching to the first language, and asking for clarification. These strategies, with the exception of switching languages, are also used by native speakers.
The term communication strategy was introduced by Selinker in 1972, and the first systematic analysis of communication strategies was made by Varadi in 1973. There were various other studies in the 1970s, but the real boom in communication strategy scholarship came in the 1980s. This decade saw a flurry of papers describing and analyzing communication strategies, and saw Ellen Bialystok link communication strategies to her general theory of second-language acquisition. There was more activity in the 1990s with a collection of papers by Kasper and Kellerman and a review article by Dörnyei and Scott, but there has been relatively little research on the subject since then.

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Communication strategies in second-language acquisition