چکیده:
This study was an attempt to investigate Iranian and Spanish intermediate nonnative English learners’ request strategies to their faculty. To this aim, 74 (50 Iranian and 24 Spanish) nonnative English intermediate learners participated in this study. A discourse completion test (DCT) was used to elicit the request strategies used by the participants. The findings suggested the participants employed the conventionally indirect request strategy to their faculty in a higher percentage. The results revealed that the effect of L1 was not significance on the choice of request strategies by the participants to the faculty
خلاصه ماشینی:
A Pragmatic Study of Speech Acts by Iranian and Spanish Nonnative English Learners Mahmood Hashemian'", Maryam Farhang-Ju2 1 Shahrekord University; m72h@hotmail.
com Abstract This study was an attempt to investigate Iranian and Spanish intermediate nonnative English learners' request strategies to their faculty.
g. , Alemi & Khanlarzadeh, 2016; Jalilifar, 2009, Hashemian, 2013), it is not clear whether Iranian and Spanish nonnative English intermediate learners use similar/different request strategies to their faculty.
In so doing, the present study was conducted to reveal the possible similarities/differences in Iranian and Spanish nonnative English intermediate learners' patterns of linguistic politeness so as to contribute to better understanding of L2 learners' development of pragmatic competence.
Therefore, it was attempted to find answers to the following questions: What are the request strategies employed by Iranian and Spanish nonnative English intermediate learners to faculty?
Results The request strategies elicited through the DCT were analyzed to determine the possible similarities/differences between Iranian and Spanish nonnative English intermediate learners in the use of request strategies to the faculty.
4. Discussion The present study sought to investigate the possible similarities and differences between Iranian and Spanish nonnative English intermediate learners' request strategies.
And, to see whether there is a relationship between Ll and the request strategies employed by Iranian and Spanish nonnative English intermediate learners.
Second, it aimed to see whether there is a relationship between Ll and the request strategies employed by Iranian and Spanish nonnative English intermediate learners.