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Al-Ali, Mohammed N. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2006
This study reports an investigation of the genre components and pragmatic strategies of letters of applications written by Jordanian Arabic--English bilinguals. Specifically it is set up to trace how far novice non-native speakers of English are able to utilise the generic components and politeness strategies of the target language that strongly…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Interpersonal Relationship
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Al-Ali, Mohammed N. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This cross-cultural study examined the generic structure of English and Arabic job application letters written by native Arabic speakers and English native speakers to find out the discourse genre text similarities and differences between them. A corpus of 60 job application letters written by 60 job applicants was subjected to the form of move…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Job Application, Job Applicants, Altruism