Tesfaye Alemu

Communicative Strategies Utilized by Primary School Trainee-teachers: Special Reference to Ttis Tesfaye Alemu

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IS CONSIDERD AS THE AGGREGATE OF LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE, SOCIOLINGUISTIC COMPETENCE, PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE AND STRATEGIC COMPETENCE. THE AUTHOR HAS GIVEN CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION TO STRATEGIC COMPETENCE OR COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES. COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES THAT A SPEAKER EMPLOYS WERE BELIEVED TO BE LANGUAGE ERRORS. HOWEVER, VARIOUS RESEARCHES CONFIRM THAT COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES ARE TECHNIQUES WHICH HELP TO SOLVE COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS BETWEEN A SPEAKER AND HIS/HER INTERLOCUTER. THEY ARE ALSO IMPORTANT TECHNIQUES THAT A SPEAKER UTILIZES DEPENDING ON THE LANGUAGE COMPETENCE OFAN INTERLOCUTER. THEREFORE, FOREIGN/SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS NEED TO BE TRAINED TO UTILIZING TARGET LANGUAGE-BASED STRATEGIES AND BE EFFECTIVE IN THEIR REAL LIFE COMMUNICATION. IN THE STUDY OF "COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES UTILIZED BY THE TEACHER-TRAINEES", BOTH FIRST LANGUAGE BASED AND TARGET LANGUAGE BASED STRATEGIES ARE INVESTIGATED. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEXT TYPE AND STRATEGY PREFFERENCE ALSO STUDIED.