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ERIC Number: EJ397885
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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Pragmatic Competence and Adult L2 Acquisition: Speech Acts and Interlanguage.
Koike, Dale April
Modern Language Journal, v73 n3 p279-89 Fall 1989
Pragmatic competence in second language (L2) speech acts, specifically in requests, is examined through data obtained from native speakers of English who are learning Spanish. Attention is focused on whether L2 learners transfer first language rules of politeness to L2 speech production. (41 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, English, Higher Education, Interlanguage, Language Research, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Speech Acts, Transfer of Training
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Language: English
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