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Situational Variations in Request and Apology Realization Strategies among International Postgraduate Students at Malaysian Universities
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Muthusamy, Paramasivam; Farashaiyan, Atieh – English Language Teaching, 2016
The present study attempted to describe the request, apology, and request mitigation strategies utilized by international postgraduate students in confronting different situations. In addition, it examined the effects of the situational factors of social distance, power, and imposition on the students' choice of request and apology strategies as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Speech Acts
Pragmatic Variations in Giving Advice in L2 by Malaysian Postgraduate Students: The Situational Effects
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Farashaiyan, Atieh; Muthusamy, Paramasivam – English Language Teaching, 2016
The present study attempted to describe the giving advice strategies utilized by Malaysian postgraduate students in confronting different situations. In addition, it examined the effects of the situational factors of social distance, power, and imposition on the students' choice of giving advice strategies. Another objective was to categorize the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning