Apart from speaking competence and vocabulary used, refusal strategies play an important role in a communication scenario. This paper investigates how Thai students realise the speech act of refusals to the initiating acts of suggestions, offers, requests, and invitations with regard to the status of the interlocutor. To achieve this objective,…

This study followed a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design. Phase I involved the collection of quantitative data to examine inservice teachers' (N = 69) attitudes about language and linguistic diversity as well as their teacher education coursework. All participants were graduates from the same teacher education program. Phase II included…

This paper aims to offer a framework to interrogate how learners make sense of values in Mathematical Literacy lessons. Through an exploration of the curriculum materials, a framework that uses, the Bloom's taxonomy to analyse the cognitive levels of the tasks in the materials against mathematical competency and knowledge areas was developed.…