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On the Applicability of Cultural Scripts in Teaching L2 Compliments
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Karimnia, Amin; Afghari, Akbar – English Language Teaching, 2010
In this study, Natural Semantic Metalanguage (henceforth NSM) was used to carry out a comparative analysis. The compliment response behavior of native Persian speakers was compared with that of Native American English speakers to see if it can provide evidence for applicability of NSM model which is claimed to be universal. The descriptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning