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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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Al-Khaza'leh, Bilal Ayed; ZainalAriff, Tun Nur Afizah – Dinamika Ilmu, 2015
The current study investigated the influence of context-external variables; social power (High, Equal and Low) and social distance (Familiar and Unfamiliar) on the perception of Jordanian and English speech act of apology. Discourse Completion Test (DCT) and Scaled Response Questionnaire (SRQ) were used to elicit data from three groups: 40…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alsulayyi, Marzouq Nasser – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This study examines the apology strategies used by 30 Saudi EFL teachers in Najran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), paying special attention to variables such as social distance and power and offence severity. The study also delineates gender differences in the respondents' speech as opposed to studies that only examined speech act output by…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning