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Download full textLoCastro, Virginia – 1986
A contrastive study of Japanese and American English sought to explore how speakers agree and disagree in the two languages. Japanese-speaking college students and American English-speaking teachers of English as a foreign language were informally questioned about food preferences, with their comments surreptitiously recorded for analysis. Results…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language)
