Japanese learners’ spoken requests in the study abroad context: appropriateness, speech rate and response time

Studies that have measured pragmatic fluency in the form of planning time and speech rate, as indicators processing ability, confirmed learners’ ability knowledge are independent from each other. The present study is a longitudinal, developmental investigation which investigates whether abroad stay (SA) has an effect on overall appropriateness, rate high low imposition situations ten L2 Japanese oral requestive output during their overseas sojourn. With exception appropriateness had most positive change, (mainly with requests), found SA minimal impact variables examined, suggesting activation needs enhancement other sources, learners need longer period to develop appropriate across range academic encounters. Results further revealed much individual variation, highlighting complexity examining performance over time.