Reeently, within the paradigm of Communicative Language Teaching, Communication Strategies have begun to attract attention from researchers. However, there is Iittle agreement en the nature of Communication Strategies and the factors which influence their use. To answer these questions, the relationship betwcen Japanese EFL Learners' proficiency and their use of Communication Strategies was investigated in the present study. Thirty-two university students were asked to take an English

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... y test and then to describe a pieture in English. The results of the anatysis shovt' that the listening ability of subjects had some connection vr'ith the frequency of their use of Communication Strategies, Added to this, it also became manifest that High Proficient leaners could use more 'Paraphrase' than Low Proficicnt learners,