eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2016-04-05 4 3 283 287 10.12691/education-4-3-9 EDUCATION2016439 article Nguyen Thi Thu thu-thi.nguyen@students.mq.edu.au, ngtkieuthu@yahoo.com 1 Nguyen Thi Kieu Thu thu-thi.nguyen@students.mq.edu.au, ngtkieuthu@yahoo.com 2 Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam English communicative competence is now considered as a golden key to the successful integration into the world. However, it is widely accepted that oral communicative competence of English non-majors in Vietnam is far from expectation at the completion of university education. Meanwhile, studies on communication strategies (CSs) are insufficient in Vietnam as most previous communication-related studies in Vietnamese context appeared to mainly focus on linguistic or methodological factors influencing communicative competences of Vietnamese students. Thus, this paper reports a study which generalizes communication strategies by Vietnamese non-majors of English whose English proficiency is intermediate. The study was both quantitative qualitative in which an integrated CS framework by Malasit, Y. and Sarobol, N. (2013) [1] combining those of Tarone (1980) [2], Faerch & Kasper (1983) [3], and Dornyei & Scott (1997) [4] was used to analyse and identify students' use of CSs in their recorded speaking performance. Data from recordings and informal interviews with the students will help provide recommendations for English teaching and learning for communicative competence in Vietnam. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/4/3/9/education-4-3-9.pdf oral communication strategies English non-majors intermediate