PRAGMATIC STRATEGIES USED BY THAI UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN AN ELF PERSPECTIVE: A CASE STUDY OF ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS
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This qualitative research aims at investigate how Thai undergraduate students communicate with interlocutors who have different L1 by using pragmatic strategies so as to reach successful communication. The 12 participants selected by using purposive and snowball sampling techniques were 8 Thai undergraduate students majoring in English and 4 foreigners, having group discussions on topics selected by the researchers. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the discussions were video recorded with their permission, and the spoken discourse was transcribed into text based on the VOICE transcription conventions (2007). A content analysis approach was used to analyze the collecteddataby coding and categorizing into themes and sub-themes.
The results showed thatthe participants employed a variety of strategies including code-switching,
self-repetition, self-initiated repair, appeal for help, confirmation check, backchannel, lexical anticipation,
and flow-keepers. It is concluded that pragmatic strategies should be consciously taken into account, and an awareness of using them appropriately should be raised because those pragmatic strategies cannot only solve misunderstanding problems or communicative breakdowns but also enhance successful communication in
daily-basis conversations among any English users.
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