Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 1 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 3 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 3 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 5 |
Descriptor
Source
| Arab Journal of Applied… | 1 |
| English Language Teaching | 1 |
| Journal of Second Language… | 1 |
| Multilingua: Journal of… | 1 |
| Reading Matrix: An… | 1 |
Author
| Babai Shishavan, Homa | 1 |
| Fatima Abdulrahman Alsalloom | 1 |
| Hanfu Mi | 1 |
| Khammari, Hassen | 1 |
| Niroomand, Masoumeh | 1 |
| Sharifian, Farzad | 1 |
| Shihai Zhang | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 5 |
| Reports - Research | 5 |
| Tests/Questionnaires | 5 |
Education Level
| Higher Education | 5 |
| Postsecondary Education | 5 |
Audience
Location
| Iran | 2 |
| China | 1 |
| Iowa | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) | 1 |
| Tunisia | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkShihai Zhang; Hanfu Mi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
Chinese has a rich and diverse vocabulary of terms, especially verbs, expressing power relationships. This paper selected 25 power relationship terms from the Chinese Proficiency Scale for International Chinese Education, and used a true-false format to test the differences in acquisition between international students from Confucian cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Power Structure, Chinese, Language Proficiency
Download full textKhammari, Hassen – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The present study investigated the production of the speech act of disagreement among Tunisian non-native students of English and American native speakers of English. Discourse completion test (DCT) was used to elicit disagreement strategies by the informants. Non-native informants produced a total of 376 acts and native informants produced 395…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Fatima Abdulrahman Alsalloom – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2022
The present study investigates the effectiveness of consciousness-raising approach in interpreting conversational implicature using audiovisual input. The study was conducted on 126 Saudi female students at the Department of English Language and Literature at AlImam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. The experimental group was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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
Niroomand, Masoumeh – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study was designed to examine the ways power relations influence politeness strategies in disagreement. The study was an attempt to find out whether different power status of people influences the the choice of appropriate politeness strategies and speech act of disagreement by Iranian EFL learners, in a university setting. A Discourse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Power Structure, Language Proficiency
