Chinese Learners’ Communication Strategies Research: a Case Study at Shandong Jiaotong University

To some extent, what Chinese learners need is communication strategies, which can help them solve problems they may encounter in actual communication. The paper sets out to investigate 89 Chinese learnersʹ communication strategies at Shandong Jiaotong University and the roles it plays in second language acquisition. After a review of current literature on communication strategies, the author conducts investigation on communication strategies of Chinese learners of English, analyzes the results of the investigation and summarizes major points of communication strategies and proposes suggestions for language learning and teaching.