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Congruence in Native and Nonnative Conversations: Status Balance in the Academic Advising Session.

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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Hartford, Beverly S. – Language Learning, 1990

Examines status in institutional discourse and identifies congruence as a factor in the success of native and nonnative speakers. Nonnative speakers suffered from a lack of context-specific pragmatic competence involving the use of status preserving strategies and appropriate content for noncongruent speech acts. (21 references) (JL)

Descriptors: Academic Advising, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis

Strategies for Requesting in Spanish and English: Structural Similarities and Pragmatic Differences.

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Walters, Joel – Language Learning, 1979

The same semantic strategies for requesting are available in Spanish and English. Bilingual children use more polite strategies in speaking Spanish and more neutral ones in speaking English. (PMJ)

Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)