Oral Compensatory Strategies are the movements/expressions that we usually do while speaking. These include facial expressions, eye movements, hands gestures and body movements.
According to some studies, Oral compensatory strategies enable speakers to continuously express their words without getting interrupted.
According to Chen (1990), language proficiency is potencially influencial factor in the choice of compensatory strategies. It is found that learners with different target language proficiency levels drew upon different sources of knowledge to solve their communication problems.
From Nakatani's Oral Communication Strategy Inventory (OCSI), Nakatani (2006) developed the OCIS for EFL universitystudents in Japan. Acording to her, the term OCS is used to highlight interlucutors negotiation behavior for coping for communication breakdowns. Based from the result of her study, effectively utilizing the CS could allow learners to remain in the conversation, which in turn provides more opportunities to expose to the target language and produce more utterances
Therefore, as she proves Communication Strategies play an integral role in language acquisition. Other researchers argue that introducing communication strategies allow weaker learners to develop a feeling of being able to do something with their language and thus derive language learning motivation. A review of relevant literature showed that studies regarding the use of communication strategies by Taiwanese College students are quite few and they say little about their use in authentic communication with native speakers or abut factors other than proficiency that affect their selection. Her study investigates the use of OCS by technological university students in Taiwan.
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