Request patterns by EFL Canarian Spanish students: Contrasting data by languages and research methods

Cruz, María Isabel González

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“…An interesting suggestion for improvement and practicality of role plays in the near future is Roever's (2011) proposal of the use of 'online interlocutors', which was not feasible at all in our study. Moreover, we think that, as carried out by González-Cruz (2014) in her study of Canarian Spanish learners of EFL, the use of more than one type of task (in her study, recorded open role-plays, a written Discourse Completion Test and field notes from observation) may allow researchers to get a more complete picture of ILP. In fact, González-Cruz's findings show that the method used for data collection may influence the results.…”

Section: Eliciting Grammar and Pragmaticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The interface between grammar and pragmatics in EFL measurement and development

Celaya

Barón

2015

European Journal of Applied Linguistics

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The aim of the present study is to analyze how learners of English as a foreign language with no instruction on pragmatics develop their grammatical and pragmatic competence from beginner to more advanced levels. The participants (N = 144) carried out an open role-play where requests and responses to such requests were required. A seven-point scale was used to assess grammatical competence in a different way to previous studies, which generally equate grammar with proficiency levels. The study describes the interface between the acquisition of grammar items and the development of pragmatic competence. The results show that as the learners become more grammatically competent, they tend to use more elaborate requests and responses and more pragmatically appropriate utterances. Further evidence is, therefore, provided to the parallel development of grammar and pragmatics in a context that has received little attention so far. The findings will also be discussed in relation to the EFL classroom.La relación entre gramática y pragmática en la medición y el desarrollo del inglés como lengua extranjera Resumen: El objetivo de este estudio es el análisis de cómo los aprendices de inglés como lengua extranjera sin instrucción en pragmática desarrollan su competencia gramatical y pragmática desde los niveles iniciales a niveles más avanzados. Los participantes (N = 144) llevaron a cabo un juego de rol abierto (open role-play) en el que se requerían preguntas y respuestas a esas mismas preguntas. Se usó una escala de 7 medidas para valorar la competencia gramatical de una forma diferente a estudios previos, los cuales suelen equiparar competencia gramatical a niveles de proficiencia. Este estudio describe la interEuJAL 2015; aop MOUTON Brought to you by | New York University Bobst Library Technical Services Authenticated Download Date | 6/23/15 2:31 PMface entre la adquisición de ciertos aspectos gramaticales y el desarrollo de la competencia pragmática. Los resultados muestran que los aprendices utilizan preguntas y respuestas más elaboradas y unidades pragmáticamente más apropiadas a medida que van adquiriendo mayor competencia gramatical. Aportamos pues otra evidencia más del desarrollo en paralelo de la gramática y la pragmática en un contexto que hasta ahora ha recibido poca atención. Este resultado será comentado en relación a la clase de inglés como lengua extranjera.Palabras clave: Pragmática de la interlingua, desarrollo, Inglés como lengua extranjera, preguntas, respuestas Die Interface zwischen Grammatik und Pragmatik in der Abmessung und der Entwicklung des EAF (Englisch als Fremdsprache).Zusammenfassung: Das Ziel dieser Studie ist die Analyse wieso die Anfänger von EAF ohne Ausbildung in Pragmatik, ihre grammatische und pragmatische Kompetenz von anfängliche bis zu höheren Ebenen entwickeln. Die Teilnehmer (N = 144) führten ein offenes "role-play" wo die Fragen und die Antworten auf diese gleichen Fragen erfordert waren. Eine Skala von sieben Massnahmen wurde verwendet, um die grammatikale Kompetenz in einer an...

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Section: Eliciting Grammar and Pragmaticsmentioning

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The interface between grammar and pragmatics in EFL measurement and development

Celaya

Barón

2015

European Journal of Applied Linguistics

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“…Within linguistics, requesting is a speech act that has been widely researched from different angles: pragmatics and politeness, and conversation analysis. One large area of speech act research focuses on the questions used for requesting in different languages, factoring in as variables for the request the relationship between the interlocutors (social and power distance) and the action for which the DSA is carried out (Craven and Potter, 2010;González-Cruz, 2014;Lindström, 2005;Placencia, 2008;Rossi, 2015). The investigation carried out by Curl and Drew (2008), on requests via telephone calls, factored in distance and power as main variables.…”

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“…Other recent research on request has examined the type of questions used when requesting (Dixon, 2015;Lindström, 2005;Ogiermann, 2015) and it has as well explored requesting forms (Curl & Drew, 2008;González-Cruz, 2014;Heinemann, 2006;Placencia, 2008) or the linguistic forms which factor in the object for requests (Craven & Potter, 2010;Rossi, 2015;Takada & Endo, 2015).…”

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Directive Speech Acts in English and Spanish Filmspeak

Pablos-Ortega

2020

Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics

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AbstractThe main aim of the study is to ascertain contrastively, in English and Spanish, how directive speech acts are represented in film discourse. For the purpose of the investigation, the directive speech acts of 24 films, 12 in English and 12 in Spanish, were extracted and analysed. A classification taxonomy, inspired by previous research, was created in order to categorize the different types of directive speech acts and determine their level of (in)directness. The results show that indirectness is more widely represented in the English than in the Spanish film scripts, thus confirming the assertion that being indirect is a distinctive feature of English native speakers (Grundy, 2008). This research makes a valuable contribution to the exploration of speech acts in filmspeak and informs the existing local grammar descriptions of the linguistic patterns of directive speech acts.

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“…(2013). Other varieties of Spanish concern Ecuador (Placencia, 1998), Uruguay (Márquez Reiter, 2002) or the Canary Islands (González Cruz, 2014). Different handbooks exist, offering larger overviews on Spanish linguistics and including, among others, studies on Spanish pragmatics and speech acts (Márquez Reiter, 2005;Placencia and Powell, 2020) and (im)politeness (López Cordero, 2009;Placencia y García, 2002).…”

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How to Start a Request? A Contrastive Study of Alerters in Spanish by Speakers of L1 Spanish and L1 French

Marsily

Cock

2023

Contrastive Pragmatics

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The formulation of requests has been widely studied in pragmatics, both within a (variety of) language and from a contrastive perspective. In this study, we will show the specific role of alerters (elements that precede the request head act and that serve to get the attention of the hearer on the request) in request formulation, comparing L1 speakers of Spanish and L2 speakers of Spanish with L1 French in Discourse Completion Tests and Naturalised Interactions. In doing so, we contribute to the contrastive pragmatic study of both languages. Our data reveal that there are statistically significant differences in the use of alerters from Spanish L1 and L2 speakers in the DCTs but not in the Naturalised Interactions. Alerters occur with rather similar frequencies in both groups, but there are qualitative differences as to which forms are adopted. At the methodological level, we highlight that data obtained from both groups’ DCTs vs. Naturalised Interactions show different results, thus underlining the importance of combined methods for contrastive pragmatics research.

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Request patterns by EFL Canarian Spanish students: Contrasting data by languages and research methods

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

The interface between grammar and pragmatics in EFL measurement and development

The interface between grammar and pragmatics in EFL measurement and development

Directive Speech Acts in English and Spanish Filmspeak

How to Start a Request? A Contrastive Study of Alerters in Spanish by Speakers of L1 Spanish and L1 French

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