En las interacciones verbales, los hablantes utilizan diferentes formas de tratamiento para dirigirse a sus interlocutores. este artículo se describen que una población universitaria relacionadas con el acto habla cumplidos. Para la recolección información, aplicaron dos cuestionarios hábitos sociales (discourse completion test, DCT) estudiantes, empleados y profesores universidad pública en Me...

Refusal is one of the most complicated challenges for hearer, as a face-threatening act, which influenced by social factors such gender. Thus, main purpose study to investigate role gender on speech acts refusal comparing performance English foreign language (EFL) learners and second (ESL) learners, males females. EFL ESL students’ data were collected using an online written Discourse Completio...

Spoken language comprehension, including comprehension for inferential material in narrative discourse, is diminished in dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT). There are, however, no empirical data concerning comprehension by adults with DAT of main ideas versus details in narratives. Evidence from other groups with and without brain damage has shown that comprehension for main ideas is relative...

veryfew attempts have been made in the past to develop instruments to measure pragmatic knowledge of second language (l2) learners. the absence of such instruments in the literature of english language teaching (elt) underscores the need for the researchers to develop new tests that are specifically designed to assess this crucial but less explored aspect of language learners’ (lls) knowledge. ...

Abstract People usually express their feelings and emotions positively to others when they have happy occasions. However, the ways of expressing congratulation may vary because expressive speech act “congratulations” is not only way happiness share news. The present study investigates strategies Pakistani English as second language (ESL) learners British speakers under influence social distance...

A large body of literature has examined the role explicit teaching on L2 pragmatics. Previous research findings confirmed that a positive impact development learners’ pragmatic competence. Many studies attempt to explore efficacy instruction in improving pragmatics competence terms learners' speech acts requesting. However, little attention been focused request strategies young learners. This s...

L2 research has shown that instruction in L2 pragmatics is necessary. The current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on EFL learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. It also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the L2 classroom. Iranian undergraduate students maj...

This study investigated the effectiveness of colligational corpus-based instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech act of request among Iranian intermediate EFL learners. The objective of the study was to find out whether or not providing students with corpora through using colligational instruction had any significant effects on enhancing their pragmalinguistic knowledge...

This study investigated the effectiveness of colligational corpus-based instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech act of request among Iranian intermediate EFL learners. The objective of the study was to find out whether or not providing students with corpora through using colligational instruction had any significant effects on enhancing their pragmalinguistic knowledge...

This qualitative/quantitative study investigates Moroccan high school EFL learners’ apologizing strategies based upon a theoretical framework of politeness and the Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP) model. It whether they approach native speakers’ apology norms or their own cultural way apologizing. To achieve this goal, four first-year baccalaureate classes (Science Experi...