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Tajeddin, Zia; Moghadam, Amir Zand – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2012
The aim of this pioneering study was to define and describe motivation for the acquisition of interlanguage pragmatic competence. Interlanguage pragmatic motivation was investigated from two perspectives: (1) general pragmatic motivation, displaying L2 learners' motivation to acquire pragmatic strategies, pragmatic routines, politeness strategies,…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Familiarity, Interlanguage, Speech Acts
Zhu, Wuhan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2012
This paper is motivated by the premise that little is known about the use of requestive strategies in request emails in Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) context. Specifically, the paper examines and compares requestive strategies in request emails between two groups of university students, namely English majors (EM) and non-English…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Interlanguage, English (Second Language), Pragmatics