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Communication skill is one of the critical elements to establish interactive linkage among other countries around the world in this global era. Communication strategies are defined as linguistic approaches or devices that language learners can readily employ to reach particular communicative goals and to overcome linguistic deficiencies or problems in interlanguage communication (Sukirlan, 2014). Willingness to communicate regards as “the probability of engaging communication when free to choose to do so” (MacIntyre et al., 2014), with attributes including communication apprehension, perceived communication competence, introversion-extraversion, self-esteem, and so forth. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of communication strategy on tertiary EFL students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) and their strategy use. The experimental group (n=51) received 7-week communication strategy-based instruction. Both quantitative and qualitative data including self-report questionnaires on communication strategy and WTC, transcription of think-aloud protocols, strategy diary, and short memos were collected. Pre-and post- oral communication tasks are given to examine their actual use of CS. The eight strategies, such as code-switching, appeal for assistance, non-verbal, word coinage, avoidance, exemplification, approximation and circumlocution were introduced through the strategy-based instruction in a college language classroom setting. The results showed that SBI of communication strategy had a positive impact on their WTC and strategy use. Specifically, there is a significant increase in the use of three coping strategies to overcome EFL speakers’ linguistic deficiency including approximation, word-coinage, and code-switching after 7 weeks of CS training. On the other hand, there is no statistical difference in the use of avoidance, exemplification, and literal translation. This session will provide pedagogical implication as well.