Request strategies used by Malaysian ESL learners of four proficiency levels

• Main Author: Taw, Ly Wen
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: English language - Study and teaching; English language - Spoken English - Study and teaching
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/70093/1/FBMK%202014%2069%20IR.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/70093/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Pragmatic competence is defined as the ability to convey communicative actions in sociocultural contexts. Production of appropriate speech acts in a particular context is one of the important aspects of pragmatic competence. Making requests forms a large part of communicative events, and they thus p...