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Khammari, Hassen – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The present study investigated the production of the speech act of disagreement among Tunisian non-native students of English and American native speakers of English. Discourse completion test (DCT) was used to elicit disagreement strategies by the informants. Non-native informants produced a total of 376 acts and native informants produced 395…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Rajabi, Shima; Azizifar, Akbar; Gowhary, Habib – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Learning a foreign language requires students to acquire both grammatical knowledge and socio-pragmatic rules of a language. Pragmatic competence as one of the most difficult aspects of language provides several challenges to L2 learners in the process of learning a foreign language. To overcome this problem, EFL teachers should find the most…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency