摘要：1.Introduction By investigating communication strategies which are the attempts to overcome gaps in learners’second language,it can provide us useful insight into the ways in which learners manage to maintain the communication when they have restricted mastery of a language and become increasingly proficient in their t arget language.The present study aims to discuss the place of communication strategies in or alsecond language pr oficiency and to explore in what way communication strategies are important to students’oral second language proficiency in the classroom.