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L2 Japanese Acquisition of the Pragmatics of Requests during a Short-term Study Abroad
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Iwasaki, Noriko |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Exposure to the target culture is generally understood to be advantageous in learning second language (L2) pragmatic competence. Bardovi-Harlig and Dornyei (1998), for example, found that learners of English who study English in an English-speaking community are more sensitive to pragmatic deviance than those who study English elsewhere. Cohen and Shively (2007) found that English-speaking French and Spanish learners improved their L2 request and apology performance after studying for a semester in target-language countries, regardless of whether they received instruction about culture-learning strategies. Yet, exposure to the target culture is not sufficient for developing target-like pragmatic ability (Barron, 2002). Hence, it is informative to examine aspects of pragmatic competence that L2 learners do and do not develop during study abroad. Such a developmental perspective is also important because previous research often examined L2 use at a single time point rather than L2 acquisition of pragmatics (Kasper & Schmidt, 1996). The current study examines how pragmatics of request-making develops in English-speaking L2 learners of Japanese over an 8-week study-abroad program by comparing their responses to the same task at the beginning and at the end of the program. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/6443/1/Iwasaki_Euro_Sympo_2008.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
