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标题：A Cross-sectional Study of Iranian EFL Learners' Request Strategies
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作者：Jalilifar, Alireza ; Hashemian, Mahmood ; Tabatabaee, Madine 等
期刊名称：Journal of Language Teaching and Research
印刷版ISSN：1798-4769
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：4
页码：790-803
DOI：10.4304/jltr.2.4.790-803
语种：English
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：This study was a cross-sectional investigation into the request strategies used by Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and Australian native speakers of English. The sample involved 96 B.A. and M.A. Iranian EFL learners and 10 native speakers of English. A Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was used to generate data related to the request strategies used by each group. The selection of request situations in the DCT was based on 2 social factors of relative power and social distance. Although the results revealed pragmatic development, particularly in the movement from direct to conventionally indirect strategies on the part of the EFL learners, the EFL learners with higher proficiency displayed overuse of indirect type of requesting, whereas the native group was characterized by the more balanced use of this strategy. The lower proficiency EFL learners, on the other hand, overused the most direct strategy type. In terms of the influence of the social variables, the findings of this research revealed that as far as social power is concerned, the EFL learners displayed closer performance to the native speakers. But considering social distance, it seems that the Iranian EFL learners had not acquired sufficient sociopragmatic knowledge to display proper social behavior.
关键词：requests;social distance;directness level;politeness