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An empirical study on the pragmatic competence of Spanish EFL learners in performing a speech act of request - TFM:658
Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFM658

Student:Iendzhiievska, Mariana
Language:Anglès
Title in original language:An empirical study on the pragmatic competence of Spanish EFL learners in performing a speech act of request
Title in different languages:An empirical study on the pragmatic competence of Spanish EFL learners in performing a speech act of request
Keywords:pragmatic competence, request, politeness strategy
Subject:Ciències de l'educació
Abstract:The aim of this study is to investigate sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic dimensions of learners’ pragmatic competence. The research was carried out by means of a discourse completion test (DCT) which was given to 50 students of a Spanish secondary school. This research is an attempt to answer the following questions: 1) Is there a relationship between language proficiency and pragmatic competence? 2) Which politeness strategies do Spanish students apply to perform a request in English? 3) Are requests performed with a different degree of politeness depending on social distance and context? 4) Are there any cross-gender differences in performing a request? The findings of the study do not show any relationship between language proficiency and pragmatic competence, learners of all levels demonstrated similar ways of request realization. Spanish EFL learners gave a preference to a conventionally indirect strategy of performing a request and social variables were taken into account by the respondents. Statistical analysis of responses revealed that males and females show certain tendencies and patterns in different aspects of performing a request.
Project director:Gallego Balsà, Lídia
Work's codirector:Oltra-Massuet, Isabel
Department:Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
Education area(s):Ensenyament i Adquisició de l'Anglès com a Llengua Estrangera / Segona Llengua
Entity:Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
TFM credits:11
Work's public defense date:2021-06-22
Academic year:2020-2021
Confidenciality:No
Subject areas:Education sciences
Creation date in repository:2021-07-06
Access Rights:info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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