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Peer reviewedVandergrift, Laurens – Modern Language Journal, 1997
Investigated the types of reception strategies and the frequency of their use by students of French as a second language at different levels of language proficiency, measured by an oral proficiency interview. A number of distinct strategies were identified: kinesics, global reprises, hypothesis testing in English and uptaking. Results are…
Descriptors: French, Group Dynamics, Hypothesis Testing, Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedTakahashi, Satomi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Examines the transferability of five Japanese indirect request strategies to corresponding English request contexts. Findings indicate that the Japanese strategies were differentially transferable and the transferability of each first-language request strategy was determined by interaction between the politeness and conventionality encoded in each…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Effect, English, Hypothesis Testing
