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Download full textXiaoqin, Liu – English Language Teaching, 2017
Based on four maxims of Grice's cooperative principle framework, a small-scale study is conducted to examine the communication strategies employed by experienced ground service staff. Data have been collected from questionnaires and in-depth interviews with Chinese domestic airlines' ground staff. This study identifies that the communicative…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Questionnaires, Interviews, Air Transportation
Muthusamy, Paramasivam; Farashaiyan, Atieh – English Language Teaching, 2016
The present study attempted to describe the request, apology, and request mitigation strategies utilized by international postgraduate students in confronting different situations. In addition, it examined the effects of the situational factors of social distance, power, and imposition on the students' choice of request and apology strategies as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Speech Acts
Muthasamy, Paramasivam; Farashaiyan, Atieh – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study examined the teaching approaches and techniques that Iranian instructors utilize for teaching L2 pragmatics in their classroom practices. 238 Iranian instructors participated in this study. The data for this study were accumulated through questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. In terms of the instructional approaches, both the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics, Language Teachers
Mahdi, Dawood Ahmed – English Language Teaching, 2014
The main purpose of learning a foreign language is to use it for meaningful and effective communication both inside and outside the classroom. This paper is devoted to identifying the main communication difficulties faced by EFL students at King Khalid University (KKU) and exploring the reasons that lie behind these difficulties. The paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), College Students, Oral Language
Zhao, Tao; Intaraprasert, Channarong – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study was intended to explore the relationship of gender, perceived language ability with communication strategy use by tourism-oriented EFL learners studying at the universities in the Southwest China to improve and maintain their oral communication in English. The Communication Strategy Questionnaire was used for data collection, and the…
Descriptors: Tourism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Questionnaires
Daif-Allah, Ayman Sabry – English Language Teaching, 2012
Learners' beliefs about foreign language learning have been stressed in educational research because they are regarded as fundamental to learners' progress (e.g. Altan, 2012; Russell, 2009; Rieger, 2009; Kormos & Csizér, 2008;). This paper deals with the results of a research project conducted among first-year English language majors studying…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
