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Tuck in Your Shirt, You Squid: Suggestions in ESL.
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Banerjee, Janet; Carrell, Patricia L. – Language Learning, 1988
An English discourse completion questionnaire consisting of 60 situations designed to elicit suggestions in English was administered to 28 native speakers of Chinese or Malay and to 12 native speakers of American English. Non-native speakers of English were more direct in their responses. Native and non-native speakers significantly differed in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education