TY - JOUR AU - Rajprasit, Krich AU - Hemchua, Saengchan PY - 2018/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Communication Mobility and Communication Strategies Used in BELF Communication: Self-Report of Thai Human Resources Professionals in a Multinational Corporation JF - rEFLections JA - rEFLections VL - 25 IS - 2 SE - Research articles DO - 10.61508/refl.v25i2.165402 UR - https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/reflections/article/view/165402 SP - 1-20 AB - <p>This study attempted to identify and compare the frequency of&nbsp;communication mobility and communication strategies employed by&nbsp;Thai Human Resources professionals in a multinational corporation in&nbsp;Bangkok. To achieve the goals of a small-scale study, a self-report&nbsp;questionnaire was adapted and developed based on the recently&nbsp;introduced ‘communication mobility’ framework of Marina and&nbsp;Smirnova (2013), and the Strategy Use in Speaking Task Inventory of<br>Chuanchaisit and Prapphal (2009). The questionnaire was based on the&nbsp;purposive sampling method and distributed to thirty participants,&nbsp;including Human Resources analysts, supervisors, and advisors. The key&nbsp;findings revealed: (1) Thai professionals often used communication&nbsp;mobility in their workplace, and mostly employed ‘Strategy 4: Individual&nbsp;active strategy’, ‘Strategy 7: Analytical strategy’, and ‘Strategy 2: Schema&nbsp;search strategy’; (2) they also often employed communication strategies&nbsp;in workplace communication; and (3) there was no significant difference&nbsp;in the uses of communication mobility and communication strategies&nbsp;among them, even though they used communication strategies that&nbsp;were ranked slightly higher than communication mobility. New findings&nbsp;have confirmed that communication mobility was another strategy for&nbsp;effective communication, which was used in this particular Human&nbsp;Resources setting almost as often as communication strategies which&nbsp;have been used for decades. They also pointed out the necessity of&nbsp;effective strategies for achieving communication goals in the Business&nbsp;English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) context.</p> ER -