Internal request modification by first and second language speakers

Lwanga-Lumu, Joy Christine

doi:10.4314/jlt.v36i3-4.5993

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“…To analyze the data gathered from the EFL learners and the native speakers of English, the particular coding scheme, the CCSARP was used. This coding scheme is a universally valid scale of directness, which had previously been empirically tested and successfully used by many researchers (Lwanga-Lumu, 2002;Wouk, 2006). The CCSARP schematized requesting strategies in 3 categories: Directness level, internal modification, and external modification.…”

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A Cross-sectional Study of Iranian EFL Learners' Request Strategies

Jalilifar¹,

Hashemian²,

Tabatabaee³

2011

JLTR

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This study was a cross-sectional investigation into the request strategies used by Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and Australian native speakers of English. The sample involved 96 B.A. and M.A. Iranian EFL learners and 10 native speakers of English. A Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was used to generate data related to the request strategies used by each group. The selection of request situations in the DCT was based on 2 social factors of relative power and social distance. Although the results revealed pragmatic development, particularly in the movement from direct to conventionally indirect strategies on the part of the EFL learners, the EFL learners with higher proficiency displayed overuse of indirect type of requesting, whereas the native group was characterized by the more balanced use of this strategy. The lower proficiency EFL learners, on the other hand, overused the most direct strategy type. In terms of the influence of the social variables, the findings of this research revealed that as far as social power is concerned, the EFL learners displayed closer performance to the native speakers. But considering social distance, it seems that the Iranian EFL learners had not acquired sufficient sociopragmatic knowledge to display proper social behavior

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A Cross-sectional Study of Iranian EFL Learners' Request Strategies

Jalilifar¹,

Hashemian²,

Tabatabaee³

2011

JLTR

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“…This coding scheme is a universally valid scale of directness previously empirically tested and successfully used by researchers (Lwanga-Lumu, 2002;Wouk, 2006 The analysis of the data took into consideration only the head acts which were isolated and classified based on the nine levels of directness. The data were then submitted to the SPSS (version 14.0) for frequency analysis and chi square test.…”

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Request Strategies: Cross-Sectional Study of Iranian EFL Learners and Australian Native Speakers

Jalilifar¹

2009

ELT

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This study was a cross-sectional investigation into the request strategies used by Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language and Australian native speakers of English. The sample involved 96 BA and MA Persian students and 10 native speakers of English. A Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was used to generate data related to the request strategies used by each group. Selection of request situations in DCT was based on two social factors of relative power and social distance. Although results revealed pragmatic development, particularly in the movement from direct to conventionally indirect strategies on the part of EFL learners, learners with higher proficiency displayed overuse of indirect type of requesting; whereas the native group was characterized by the more balanced use of this strategy. The lower proficiency learners, on the other hand, overused the most direct strategy type. In terms of the influence of the social variables, the findings of this research revealed that as far as social power is concerned EFL learners display closer performance to native speakers. But considering social distance, it seems that Iranian EFL learners have not acquired sufficient sociopragmatic knowledge to display proper social behavior.

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“…After its development by Blum-Kulka et al (1989), the CCSARP has been used in many studies and has been reported as a reliable and valid data collection instrument (e.g., Lwanga-Lumu, 2002;Wouk, 2006). The CCSARP schematized offering advice strategies in three different categories: directness level, internal modification, and external modification.…”

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A Cross-Cultural Study of Offering Advice Speech Acts by Iranian EFL Learners and English Native Speakers: Pragmatic Transfer in Focus

Babaie¹,

Shahrokhi²

2015

ELT

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The purpose of the present study was to compare the speech act of offering advice as realized by Iranian EFL learners and English native speakers. The study, more specifically, attempted to find out whether there was any pragmatic transfer from Persian (L1) among Iranian EFL learners while offering advice in English. It also examined whether Iranian EFL learners' perception of directness/indirectness in the realization of offering advice develops as a result of proficiency development. In order to achieve the objectives, a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was used to collect the speech act of offering advice from among Iranian EFL learners and native English speakers. The findings indicated that Iranian EFL learners were not as balanced as native English speakers in the use of indirect use of offering advice. It was also observed that Iranian EFL learners had not acquired the pragmatic competence to offer native-like advice with regard to social power and social distance between interlocutors. The result also revealed that Iranian EFL learners and the native English speakers favored a number of similar strategies for the realization of offering advice, though there were differences in terms of frequency use of the speech acts of offering advice. Thus, this study showed evidence of pragmatics transfer.

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Internal request modification by first and second language speakers

Cited by 10 publications

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A Cross-sectional Study of Iranian EFL Learners' Request Strategies

A Cross-sectional Study of Iranian EFL Learners' Request Strategies

Request Strategies: Cross-Sectional Study of Iranian EFL Learners and Australian Native Speakers

A Cross-Cultural Study of Offering Advice Speech Acts by Iranian EFL Learners and English Native Speakers: Pragmatic Transfer in Focus

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