Shuan Wei-Hong Ko

[ 1 ] - Investigating Non-Native English Speaking Graduate Students’ Pragmatic Development in Requestive Emails

The present study investigated learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of 99 requestive emails addressed to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. Most previous studies mainly investigated how non-native English speaking students’ (NNESs) pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence differed from native English speaking students (NESs) and compared learners ...