Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners
Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners

Author: Vincent X. Wang

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011-05-10

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 9027286809

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Requests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular attention in politeness theories, pragmatics, and second language acquisition. This book looks at request behaviours in a significant EFL population – Chinese-speaking learners of English. It will draw on recent literature, such as politeness theories and cognitive models for interlanguage pragmatics development, as well as placing special emphasis on situational context and formulaic language to provide a more fine-grained investigation. A range of request scenarios has been specifically designed for this project, from common service encounters to highly face-threatening situations such as borrowing money and asking a favour of police officer. Our findings on Chinese-style pragmatic behaviours and patterns of pragmatic development will be of value to cross-cultural pragmatics researchers, TESOL professionals, and university students with an interest in this area of study.

Teaching and Researching Chinese EFL/ESL Learners in Higher Education
Teaching and Researching Chinese EFL/ESL Learners in Higher Education

Author: Zhongshe Lu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-21

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1000395251

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China has attached great importance to teaching students to become proficient users of English. Yet, despite a plethora of studies and practice on Chinese ESL/EFL (English as a second/foreign language) learners, the large student population, its complicated composition and the complex nature of second and foreign language learning have rendered it difficult to offer a panoramic view on ESL/EFL teaching and learning of Chinese learners. This book provides a new and up-to-date perspective on the teaching and learning of Chinese ESL/EFL learners. The book collects 15 case studies, falling into two parts—Curriculum Development and Teaching Practice and Skills-Based Research. The collected studies deploy qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods to explore patterns, features, developments and causes and effects of a variety of issues in the sphere of ESL/EFL teaching and learning. Moreover, the cases offer insights that are relevant beyond the mainland Chinese context such as Hong Kong, Macau, Britain and Australia. Students and scholars of TESOL and applied linguistics will be interested in this title.

Willingness to Communicate in the Chinese EFL University Classroom
Willingness to Communicate in the Chinese EFL University Classroom

Author: Jian-E Peng

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2014-02-26

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1783091576

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This book presents mixed-methods research into Chinese students' willingness to communicate (WTC) in an EFL classroom context. The interrelationships between WTC and motivation, communication confidence, learner beliefs and classroom environment are examined using structural equation modelling on data collected in a large-scale survey. These results are then complemented and expanded upon in a follow-up multiple case-study that identifies six themes which account for fluctuations of WTC over time and across situations. The qualitative and quantitative data provide the grounds for the proposition of an ecological model of WTC in the Chinese EFL university classroom, which reveals that WTC is socioculturally constructed as a function of the interaction of individual and environmental factors inside and beyond the classroom walls.

Pragmatic Transfer and Development
Pragmatic Transfer and Development

Author: Wei Li

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9027264171

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Email has become a ubiquitous medium of communication. It is used amongst people from the same speech community, but also between people from different language and cultural backgrounds. When people communicate, they tend to follow rules of speaking in their native language, termed by scholars as pragmatic transfer, which may cause misunderstandings and lead to cross-cultural communication breakdown. This book examines pragmatic transfer by Chinese learners of English at different proficiency levels when writing email requests and refusals. To meet the need for developmental research in L2 pragmatics, it also explores whether pragmatic transfer increases or decreases as language proficiency improves. This book will appeal to researchers and students in interlanguage and intercultural pragmatics, second language acquisition, English as a second/foreign language, and intercultural communication.

Chinese Efl Learners' Pragmatic and Discourse Transfer in L2 Requests
Chinese Efl Learners' Pragmatic and Discourse Transfer in L2 Requests

Author: Citing Li

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9783838309125

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The purpose of this study is to explore the nature, patterns, conditions and constraints of Chinese EFL learners' pragmatic and discourse transfer in the situated discourse of requests by comparing the different pragmatic and discursive choices between the Chinese EFL learners and the English native speakers. The study found that EFL learners' transfer of pragmalinguistic and discourse strategies interacted with their sociopragmatic perceptions of the contextual variables in social interaction to varying degrees. The study, incorporating perspectives on linguistic patterns, cognitive processes and social influences, proposes a model on the dynamic and fluid interaction among structural factors and non-structural factors. A matrix of five possible transfer patterns is proposed to account for the observed variety of idiosyncrasies in the learner transfer. Efforts on explicit pragmatics instruction and systematic pragmatics strategy training in EFL classrooms are called for while respect for learners' subjective choice for whose pragmatic forms to use in different interactional contexts is also advocated.

Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners
Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners

Author: Vincent X. Wang

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 902725611X

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Requests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular attenTION IN Politeness theories, pragmatics, and second language acquisition. This book looks at request behaviours in a significant EFL population - Chinese speaking learners of English. It will draw on recent literature, such as politeness theories and cognitive models for interlanguage pragmatics development, as well as placing special emphasis on situational context and formulaic language to provide a more fine-grained investigation. A rnage of request scenarios has been specifically designed for this project, from common service encounters to highly face-threatening situations such as borrowing money and asking a favour of police officer. Our findings on Chinese-style pragmatic behaviours and patterns of pragmatic development will be of value to cross-cultural pragmatics researchers, TESOL professionals, and university students with an interest in this area of study.