Identifying communication strategies employed by English language learners in private institutes in Sirjan

The goal of the study was to investigate the most dominant communicative strategies implemented by EFL learners in a private institute in Sirjan. To this purpose, four groups of adult EFL learners, ranging between 21 to 26, male and female, were asked to give their response to a pre-designed questionnaire originally used by Hua (2012) to investigate the attitudes of Chinese English language learners. After translating the questionnaire and estimating its reliability index, the data was analyzed by SPSS software and the results were achieved. It was concluded that the subjects showed their interest to use those strategies that would lead to more successful learning. On the other hand, they benefitted from a high degree of confidence as a necessary principle for language learning. Besides, some of the strategies they employed were a reflection of their L1 strategy which they have been using for a long time. It was proved that confidence led to establishing a relaxed and free learning situation in which both learners and teachers benefitted from the learning activities. Another factor of success among the learners is their close attention to the components of the language they had to study. They proved that they were sensitive to using grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation elements in a proper and accurate way.