Formulaic Language and EFL Requests: Sensitive Wording at the Right Time

I examine whether teaching formulaic language raises English as a foreign language learners’ awareness of pragmatic resources when expressing requests. To carry out this research I adopt a qualitative self-reflective approach which encourages students to use formulaic language when making requests....

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Autores:
Mugford, Gerrard
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2017
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/66890
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66890
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67918/
Palabra clave:
37 Educación / Education
8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
English as a foreign language
formulaic language
pragmatics
requests
Inglés como lengua extranjera
lenguaje formulaico
peticiones
pragmática
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:I examine whether teaching formulaic language raises English as a foreign language learners’ awareness of pragmatic resources when expressing requests. To carry out this research I adopt a qualitative self-reflective approach which encourages students to use formulaic language when making requests. By responding to discourse completion tasks, learners were given the opportunity to reflect on whether the use of formulaic language enhances their ability to come across in acceptable and appropriate ways. Results indicate that by developing learners’ knowledge and via the use of pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic resources, students at all levels have a much greater chance of achieving their communicative objectives and of becoming more pragmatically competent in the target language when making requests.