Abstract
Communication skills have been taught in classrooms both in junior and senior high schools since the subjects Oral Communication (A)(B)(C) appeared in the 1989 Course of Study. Among the skills communication strategies are the focus of the teacher's attention inside the classrooms as well as outside classroom activities. The author of this paper has been trying to investigate how communication strategies are taken up in the textbooks which have been used for teaching English language as a foreign language in Japan. He has had three kinds of research from the points of communication strategy: the junior high school English textbooks, the screening tests for senior high schools , and senior high school English textbooks. In this paper the previous studies in communication strategy, comparing with learning strategy, and teachability of the strategies. The result of the textbooks and screening tests investigations will be published in the following editions of this bulltin.
