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Shirazi, Masoumeh Ahmadi; Nadoushani, Seyed Mohammad Mousavi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
Interlanguage pragmatics concerns the inspection of interactions among people in society while they are aware of the effects that interaction imposes on them regarding culture, social values and individuals' peculiar interpretations. Of high value in social interaction, politeness is an essential constituent of interlanguage pragmatics. If…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Intelligence, Predictor Variables, Pragmatics
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Khorshidi, Hassan Rasouli – English Language Teaching, 2013
This research study empirically investigated the impact of study abroad context on L2 learners' pragmatic development compared with study at home group in Iran. For the study abroad group the participants were selected from the Iranian students who registered in a six-month program in language institutes in India (Mysore) and for the study at home…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Pretests Posttests, Program Effectiveness
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Babai Shishavan, Homa; Sharifian, Farzad – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
The aim of this study was to explore pragmalinguistic strategies employed by a group of Iranian English language learners when making refusals to invitations, requests, offers and suggestions in their first (Persian) and second (English) languages. Data were collected from 86 participants through a Discourse Completion Test (DCT). The social…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Khorshidi, Hassan Rasouli; Nimchahi, Abdolreza Bagherzadeh – English Language Teaching, 2013
It is generally believed that interlanguage pragmatics and motivation play important roles in learning. Motivation is important because it determines the extent of the learner's active involvement and attitude toward learning. The major purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of integrative and instrumental motivation on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mofidi, Marzieh; Shoushtari, Zohreh Gooniband – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the pragmatic transfer Iranian EFL and ESL learners of English showed when complaining in English. The study aimed to find out if there exists any relationship between the amount of contact with English and pragmatic competence of both EFL and ESL groups as well as the relationship between the duration…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Speech Acts