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Turhan, Burcu; Tuncer, Hülya – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2022
Apology may be defined as "a compensatory action for an offense committed by the speaker which has affected the hearer" (Marquez-Reiter, 2000, p. 44), and a compliment is another speech act "which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than the speaker... which is positively valued by the speaker and the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning
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Brantmeier, Cindy; Callender, Aimee; McDaniel, Mark – Hispania, 2013
The present study utilizes readings taken from texts in social psychology to examine the effects by gender of embedded "what" questions and elaborative "why" questions on reading comprehension. During regular class time, 97 advanced second language (L2) learners of Spanish read two different vignettes, either with or without…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Gender Differences, Spanish, Second Language Instruction