Politeness markers in emails of non-native English speaking university students

The use of computer-mediated communication including emails has become pervasive in academic contexts as a result the COVID-19 pandemic. What seems to be significant but simply overlooked by students is meeting politeness netiquettes while sending emails. To this end, current study investigated extent which non-native English speaking university adjust level their response written that received from an American professor. collect data, four versions email message with different levels were prepared advance. either included or excluded verbal and structural markers asked for participants’ demographic information reason participation study. Then, 73 enrolled general course selected divided randomly into groups each one version results data analysis on emails, based accommodation theory (Giles 1973) theoretical framework, revealed they did not accommodate cues Besides, knowledge etiquettes genre seemed inadequate. Finally, article provides some pedagogical implications designers, materials developers, instructors devise plans raise students’ awareness aware significance principles