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Chen, Ling; Cegala, Donald J. – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1994
Applies communication accommodation theory (CAT) to a study of the utility of selected discourse indices of adaptability that compared conversations involving native speaker-native speaker and native speaker-nonnative speaker dyads. Subjects were 132 student volunteers from a large midwestern university. Results are analyzed in terms of their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis