Investigating Oral Communication Strategy Use Qualitatively: Risks of Obtaining Inaccurate Data

Oral communication strategy (OCS) literature reveals that the vast majority of the OCS research has adopted qualitative approaches to identify the OCSs used by second language (L2) speakers. The problem in investigating the OCSs through qualitative techniques lies in the fact that it is highly likely for participants, when performing the qualitative tasks, not to employ all the OCSs they actually utilize in reality and have in their own OCS...