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Publication Date: 1999
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Inexplicitness: What Is It and Should We Be Teaching It?
Cheng, Winnie; Warren, Martin
Applied Linguistics, v20 n3 p293-315 Sep 1999
Focuses on the use of inexplicitness by native speakers (NSs) and nonnative speakers (NNSs) engaged in English conversations, for example impromptu, uninstitutionalized discourses. Shows that a characteristic of NNSs spoken language is the inappropriate level of inexplicitness used and the ways in which inexplicitness is manifested in the discourse. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Chinese, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Oral Language, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Transfer of Training
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Language: English
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