PROACTIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN WITH FOOD REFUSAL Sara E. Langlois April 10, 2009 Feeding disorders occur when a child rejects significant amounts of food or drink. Food refusals are maintained by factors which may be behavioral based, due to structural impairments, or a combination of the two. One of the first steps to increasing a child's diet is having them try novel or previously rejected...

The purpose of this study was to examine Cook’s (2003) ‘multiple competence’ by investigating backward pragmatic transfer (from L2 [English] to L1 [Persian]) in refusals to invitations. It explored participants’ frequency and content of refusal strategies in L1 regarding the status (i.e., power and distance) of interlocutors and the proficiency level of EFL learners. The participants were Persi...

Competent patients' refusals of nursing care do not yet have the legal or ethical standing of refusals of life-sustaining medical therapies such as mechanical ventilation or blood products. The case of a woman who refused turning and incontinence management owing to pain prompted us to examine these situations. We noted several special features: lack of paradigm cases, social taboo around unman...

In order to communicate accurately and fluently, learners need know how produce different speech acts inside outside the classroom context. Refusal act is complicated, performing refusals successfully needs a higher level of pragmatic competence (Eslami, 2010). This study done in analyze refusal its responses among Iranian EFL learners. The participants this are 120 advanced These provided with...

Telephone surveys face more and criticism because of decreasing coverage increasing costs, the risk producing socially desirable answers. Consequently, survey administrators consider switching their to web mode, although mode is susceptible item nonresponse. Still, we do not know whether this true for all question types. In article, analyze what extent nonresponse depends on characteristics suc...