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Download full textRafieyan, Vahid; Sharafi-Nejad, Maryam; Khavari, Zahra; Damavand, Ayoob; Eng, Lin Siew – English Language Teaching, 2014
The distance between language learners' culture and the culture of the target language community is considered to play a crucial role in determining the level of pragmatic comprehension. In this respect, a study was conducted over 30 German students, perceived as culturally close to the British, and 30 South Korean students, perceived as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Niroomand, Masoumeh – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study was designed to examine the ways power relations influence politeness strategies in disagreement. The study was an attempt to find out whether different power status of people influences the the choice of appropriate politeness strategies and speech act of disagreement by Iranian EFL learners, in a university setting. A Discourse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Power Structure, Language Proficiency
