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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen – Language Learning, 1999
Presents a research agenda in which the study of interlanguage becomes more central to the study of interlanguage pragmatics, assessing the state of acquisition research in interlanguage pragmatics, surveying work in interlanguage pragmatics that either directly examines or appeals to grammatical competence, showing how acquisition studies in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Interlanguage, Language Research, Language Usage
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Flix-Brasdefer, J. Csar – Language Learning, 2004
Using role play and verbal-report data, this study investigates the sequential organization of politeness strategies of 24 learners of Spanish and whether the learners' ability to negotiate and mitigate a refusal was influenced by length of residence in the target community. Refusal sequences were examined throughout the interaction head acts,…
Descriptors: Social Status, Role Playing, Pragmatics, Interlanguage
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Davis, John McE. – Language Learning, 2007
The study examines how learner biases toward a particular national type of English affect interlanguage pragmatics. Specifically, this study assesses the degree to which Korean ESL (English as a second language) students' preferences for North American English influence their willingness to use Australian-English routines while studying in…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Foreign Countries, North American English, Pragmatics
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Lalleman, Josine A. – Language Learning, 1987
Dutch native children and Turkish immigrant children, born and reared in the Netherlands, were asked to tell a story from a series of pictures, at age six and again at age eight. The Turkish children exhibited about the same level of narrative proficiency in Dutch as their Dutch peers. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dutch