| Communication strategies play an important role in L2 communication. Communicationstrategies can be employed to remedy linguistic deficiencies and overcome the difficulties ofcommunication. Many scholars have studied this subject, but most of the studies focus on oralcommunication strategies. As a matter of fact, some scholars at home and abroad have advocatedthe studies of CSs used in written communication and some studies on this subject have beenconducted. However, these studies are not systematic and sufficient. In addition, writtencommunication is an important form of L2 communication. Learners are bound to use CSs inwritten communication because of lack of L2 linguistic competence. Thus, studies of writtencommunication are of great importance to CS studies and L2 teaching.The thesis will make a study and discussion about college students’(non-English majors’)communication strategies in English writing. The quantitative and qualitative methods areemployed in this study. This thesis covers four aspects as follows: 1) communication strategieschosen by college students in English writing, 2) relationship between communication strategiesemployment and communication problems, 3) relationship between communication strategiesemployment and English proficiency, 4) relationship between communication strategiesemployment and English writing quality.This study reveals some findings. First of all, CSs used in college students’writing arecollected and classified. Second, CPs have a strong influence on the choice of CSs in collegestudents’English writing. Third, English proficiency and writing quality are found correlated to CSsemployment in English writing.This thesis is composed of five chapters. The first chapter is the part of introduction whichstates the reasons, purposes and structure of the thesis. The second chapter is the part of literaturereview which reviews the studies of communication strategies at home and abroad. The thirdchapter introduces the methodology of the study. The fourth chapter is to present the results anddiscussion. The fifth chapter is the last part of the thesis which functions as a conclusion about thewhole thesis, pointing out the limitations of this study and giving suggestions for the further study. |
