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Direct linkTaguchi, Naoko – Applied Linguistics, 2007
This study took a pragmatic approach to examining the effects of task difficulty on L2 oral output. Twenty native English speakers and 59 Japanese students of English at two different proficiency levels produced speech acts of requests and refusals in a role play task. The task had two situation types based on three social variables:…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Role Playing, Task Analysis, Native Speakers
