Relevant Study Of CSs And Oral Fluency Among CET-SET Takers

This thesis concerns the relevant study of the use of CSs and oral English fluency among CET-SET takers. One of the significant goals for studying foreign language is to communicate with others by using the knowledge of foreign language. Therefore, improving communicative abilities of second language learners has become one of the important issues attracting great attention of researchers home and abroad and foreign language teachers. CET-SET takers always employ various CSs to achieve communicative goals because of the limitation for target language knowledge when they are finishing oral tasks or during the process of oral communication. That is to say, second language learners fill the vacancies between language knowledge limitation and actual demands of communication through making use of a variety of CSs.The study for oral fluency has gaining increasingly attention among a great many researchers home and abroad in the significance and influence of language acquisition and foreign language teaching. However, with regard to explorations and researches for oral fluency, some focus on second language acquisition in natural environment, some are mainly based on second language learning activities, and few is based on the study of CET-SET takers.This study has taken CET-SET takers as research subjects and has employed questionnaire, oral tasks and retrospective interview as research instruments.Research data has been collected and calculated with the assistance of Cool Edit Pro 2.0 and SPSS 16.0.The relations between use of CSs and oral fluency among CET-SET takers have been discussed and analyzed. This study has found that CET-SET takers who have higher oral fluency tend to employ various CSs including both achievement and reduction strategies.Furthermore, the numbers and types for CSs used by CET-SET takers who have lower oral fluency are apparently small.Finally, the author has provided enlightenment for foreign language learning, teaching and testing, and limitations for this study.