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What Lies Beneath?: Verbal Report in Interlanguage Requests in English
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Woodfield, Helen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2010
The present study investigates the role of concurrent and retrospective verbal report in exploring the cognitive processes of six pairs of advanced ESL learners engaged on a written discourse completion task eliciting status-unequal requests in English. Qualitative analysis of the concurrent data indicate that (i) social contextual aspects of the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Processing
"I Just Need More Time": A Study of Native and Non-Native Students' Requests to Faculty for an Extension
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Woodfield, Helen; Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2010
This paper examines the status-unequal requests of 89 advanced mixed-L1 learners and 87 British English native speakers elicited by a written discourse completion task. Significant differences were observed in all three dimensions analysed: internal and external modification, and perspective. The data demonstrate learners' overuse of zero marking…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Native Speakers, Pragmatics, College Students