Job Interview

An Analysis of Communication Strategies Used by Thai Prospective Employees

Bibliographic Data

ID21807373
AuthorsPrathomwat Suraprajit (0009-0002-4889-9759, Kasetsart University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue9
Pages1025
Publication date2020-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory and Practice in Language Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1799-2591 • E-ISSN: 2053-0692
PublisherAcademy Publication (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17507/tpls.1009.03
OpenAlexW3081681664
LanguageEN
References cited6

Communication strategies play a crucial role for all employees who use English as a second or foreign language. The present study then analyzed the communication strategies employed by the prospective Thai employees who participated in the job interview activity at a Thai university. An in-depth job interview was conducted for gaining the qualitative data. The data were later analyzed by using descriptive statistics. Related to the mixed taxonomy of Tarone (1980), Faerch & Kasper (1983), and Dornyei & Scott (1997), the results showed that the most frequently used strategies employed by Thai participants during the job interview were compensatory strategies (intra-actional strategies) followed by compensatory strategies (interactional strategies) and avoidance strategies. In addition, when grouping into sub-types, the findings indicated that the three most frequently used strategies were code-switching, asking for repetition, and message abandonment, respectively

Descriptive statistics · Linguistics · Political science · Statistics · Applied Psychology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social Psychology

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