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Qadi, Ahmad Hatim – English Language Teaching, 2021
The current study seeks to probe the use of refusal strategies and their frequency among Saudi EFL students of Bachelor of Science (BS) at Moon University (pseudonym), Saudi Arabia. Through a convenient sampling procedure, 20 students were selected, and Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was administered. This test comprised 12 situations eliciting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Winans, Michael D. – Language Learning & Technology, 2020
This study investigates syntactic modifiers as part of the request speech act within email messages and builds on studies of L2 pragmatics within computer-mediated communication to identify how modifications affect perceived politeness. Enrolled in first-year composition courses, the participants formed two groups: English L1 (EL1) students (n=32)…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Prosocial Behavior, Writing Evaluation, College Faculty
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Nassif, Lama; Al Masaeed, Khaled – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study examines the multidialectal (i.e. diglossic) practices in the sociolinguistic repertoire of speech productions of 28 L2 Arabic learners who went through training using the integrated approach to learn two varieties of Arabic at the same time: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Levantine Arabic. Specifically, the study investigated…
Descriptors: Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Arabic, Standard Spoken Usage
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Chun, Eunjin; Kaan, Edith – Second Language Research, 2022
Syntactic priming studies in second language (L2) have contributed to understanding how L2 speakers' syntactic knowledge is represented and processed. However, little is known about social influences on L2 speakers' syntactic processing and learning. The present study investigated whether L2 speakers' syntactic priming is influenced by social…
Descriptors: Syntax, North American English, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Olaoye, Anthony Ayodele – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2013
The ethnography of communication, particularly of greetings, among speakers of some Yoruba dialects is the major concern of this paper. The author observed that the much-cherished, rich culture of greetings, among Yoruba, which the author grew up to know, by linguistic globalization and modernization is being eroded fast. The study and…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, African Languages, Ethnography, Interpersonal Communication
Williams, Kathleen Clagett – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Grounded in literature on the miseducation of students whose native varieties of English differ most noticeably from the standard academic variety (Delpit 2006; Labov 1972a; Rickford 1999; Smitherman 1999; Wolfram, Adger, and Christian 1999; Wolfram and Schilling-Estes 2006), this dissertation examines the links between the sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Ethnography, Language Variation, Sociolinguistics