The purpose of the present study is to investigate into the possibility of pragmatic failure in the L2 production of Yemeni EFL university learners. It, in particular, tackles the L1 negative pragmatic transfer in the speech act of responding to compliments. The participants of the study are thirty Yemeni learners of English representing the target group and two baseline groups: thirty Yemeni Arabic native speakers and thirty American English native speakers. The researchers used a Discourse Completion Task as to collect the relevant data based on six complimenting scenarios. Data were codified into compliment response formulas and analysed statistically via SPSS in terms of the overall frequency counts of the semantic formulas. The r...
peer-reviewedThe present study seeks to identify and contrast the linguistic patterns used by native...
Abstract- The use of English expressions frequently has helped the transfer of pragmatics rules, for...
The speech act of complementing and how speakers give and respond to compliments have been much rese...
This study investigates the extent to which 80 female Kuwaiti EFL learners produce target-like compl...
This study investigates the extent to which 80 female Kuwaiti EFL learners produce target-like compl...
This study investigates the extent to which 80 female Kuwaiti EFL learners produce target-like compl...
This study investigates the extent to which 80 female Kuwaiti EFL learners produce target-like compl...
The importance of pragmatic competence in language teaching and learning has been highlighted in man...
The present study is an investigation of patterns of negative pragmatic transfer from L1 in the spee...
Abstract: This study aims to describe (1) the form of compliment strategies and complimen...
Abstract: This study aims to describe (1) the form of compliment strategies and complimen...
Communication breakdowns can occur during cross-cultural communication due to different perceptions ...
Compliment responses (CRs) as manifestations of social-cultural standards and politeness varieties o...
This study aims to explore the correlation between learners’ pragmatic competence performance and la...
This present study aims at investigating compliment response strategies used by different groups of ...
peer-reviewedThe present study seeks to identify and contrast the linguistic patterns used by native...
Abstract- The use of English expressions frequently has helped the transfer of pragmatics rules, for...
The speech act of complementing and how speakers give and respond to compliments have been much rese...
This study investigates the extent to which 80 female Kuwaiti EFL learners produce target-like compl...
This study investigates the extent to which 80 female Kuwaiti EFL learners produce target-like compl...
This study investigates the extent to which 80 female Kuwaiti EFL learners produce target-like compl...
This study investigates the extent to which 80 female Kuwaiti EFL learners produce target-like compl...
The importance of pragmatic competence in language teaching and learning has been highlighted in man...
The present study is an investigation of patterns of negative pragmatic transfer from L1 in the spee...
Abstract: This study aims to describe (1) the form of compliment strategies and complimen...
Abstract: This study aims to describe (1) the form of compliment strategies and complimen...
Communication breakdowns can occur during cross-cultural communication due to different perceptions ...
Compliment responses (CRs) as manifestations of social-cultural standards and politeness varieties o...
This study aims to explore the correlation between learners’ pragmatic competence performance and la...
This present study aims at investigating compliment response strategies used by different groups of ...
peer-reviewedThe present study seeks to identify and contrast the linguistic patterns used by native...
Abstract- The use of English expressions frequently has helped the transfer of pragmatics rules, for...
The speech act of complementing and how speakers give and respond to compliments have been much rese...