Foreign language students inevitably face oral communication difficulties due to their language limitation. Communication strategies are powerful tools to assist students overcome communication problems and keep conversations flowing. Yet, a few studies have examined the actual teaching of communication strategies in the classroom. This study investigated the degree of teaching communication strategies to English as a Foreign Language students and its relation to instructors' academic degree,

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... d years of teaching experience. The researcher utilized a descriptive quantitative research method, and an online questionnaire to collect the data. The study sample involved 64 instructors n= (64) from the English Language Department at King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia. The findings demonstrated that the instructors taught communication strategies to a degree ranging from almost always to rarely, and the overall mean score for teaching communication strategies was 3.53(SD=0.49).The guessing strategy was the most communication strategy taught by the instructors, while the least communication strategy taught was the mumbling strategy. Furthermore, the findings pointed that there was statistically significant difference in teaching communication strategies degree attributed to the academic degree in the direction of instructors who hold a doctoral degree. There was no statistically significant difference between instructors in the degree of teaching communication strategies attributed to their years of teaching experience