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Khorshidi, Hassan Rasouli – English Language Teaching, 2013
This research study empirically investigated the impact of study abroad context on L2 learners' pragmatic development compared with study at home group in Iran. For the study abroad group the participants were selected from the Iranian students who registered in a six-month program in language institutes in India (Mysore) and for the study at home…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Pretests Posttests, Program Effectiveness
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Babai Shishavan, Homa; Sharifian, Farzad – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
The aim of this study was to explore pragmalinguistic strategies employed by a group of Iranian English language learners when making refusals to invitations, requests, offers and suggestions in their first (Persian) and second (English) languages. Data were collected from 86 participants through a Discourse Completion Test (DCT). The social…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning