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Strategies for Requesting in Spanish and English: Structural Similarities and Pragmatic Differences.

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Walters, Joel – Language Learning, 1979

The same semantic strategies for requesting are available in Spanish and English. Bilingual children use more polite strategies in speaking Spanish and more neutral ones in speaking English. (PMJ)

Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)