A Study on Strategy Use of EFL High School Students in the Face-threatening Speech Acts
2004
Hochschulschrift
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92
This study investigated Taiwanese students'' strategy use in four face-threatening acts: request, apology, advice, and refusal before and after instruction on pragmatic strategies. The MCQ (multiple-choice questionnaire) pre-test was administered before instruction to examine Taiwanese students'' preferences for strategy use in English. After instruction, the MCQ post-test was administered to examine Taiwanese students'' learning outcomes. The results showed that indirect strategies of giving advice were the most difficult pragmatic strategies and refusal strategies were the second most difficult pragmatic strategies for Taiwanese students before and after instruction on pragmatic strategies. It is possible that Taiwanese students regard giving advice as appropriate ways to build relationship with others or to show concern for them. And among the four face-threatening speech acts, the speech act of refusal requires the most strategies and Taiwanese students may have difficulties telling the subtle differences of the strategies. Although there might be some individual differences toward the pragmatic strategies, it is worth noting that misunderstandings may happen unintentionally between Taiwanese and Americans because of cultural differences in strategy use.
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A Study on Strategy Use of EFL High School Students in the Face-threatening Speech Acts
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hu, Hsiu-li ; 胡琇莉 |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2004 |
Medientyp: | Hochschulschrift |
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