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Download full textHanyu Jia – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2023
To explore email request patterns in the institutional context of university settings, this study combines speech act research with conversation analysis methods to examine how native speakers of American English and native speakers of Chinese formulate email requests to faculty. 100 authentic email requests sent by Chinese and American students…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Speech Acts, Native Speakers, North American English
Direct linkWang, Yuqi; Ren, Wei – Language Learning Journal, 2022
L2 pragmatics have explored the effects of different factors on different aspects of learners' pragmatic performance, but often not simultaneously. In addition, syntactic complexity is rarely examined in L2 pragmatics. This cross-sectional study aimed to conduct a multidimensional analysis to explore the effects of proficiency and study-abroad…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Wong, Simpson W. L.; Dealey, Jessica; Leung, Vina W. H.; Mok, Peggy P. K. – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Despite English being a core and compulsory part of the curriculum for Chinese English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners, it is nevertheless often highly challenging for them. This is partly due to the discrepancies between English's citation and spoken form and the lack of recognition this pronunciation receives within ESL classrooms. With this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phonemes
Xu, Wei; Wang, Yu; Case, Rod E. – Language Awareness, 2010
This study reports on findings of an investigation into Chinese students' attitudes towards varieties of English before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. One hundred and eight college students in mainland China evaluated six English speeches by two American English speakers, two British English speakers, and two Chinese English speakers for social…
Descriptors: Social Status, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
So, Wing Chee – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to examine cross-cultural differences in gesture frequency and the extent to which exposure to two cultures would affect the gesture frequency of bilinguals when speaking in both languages. The Chinese-speaking monolinguals from China, English-speaking monolinguals from America, and Chinese-English bilinguals from…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Asian Culture, Cultural Differences
Yu, Ming-chung – Language and Speech, 2005
The present study examines sociolinguistic features of a particular speech act, paying compliments, by comparing and contrasting native Chinese and native American speakers' performances. By focusing on a relatively understudied speaker group such as the Chinese, typically regarded as having rules of speaking and social norms very different from…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Sociolinguistics, Chinese, Foreign Countries
