scholarly journals 3. Peer/Group Interaction in a Mandarin Chinese Study Abroad Context

Author(s):  
Li Jin
System ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 102475
Author(s):  
Li Yang ◽  
Chuanren Ke

Author(s):  
Xiaofei Tang ◽  
Naoko Taguchi ◽  
Shuai Li

Abstract This study examined the relationship between reported amounts of social contact and speech act strategies among 70 learners of Chinese enrolled in a study abroad program in Beijing. The participants completed a computer-delivered spoken discourse completion task (spoken DCT) eliciting three speech acts: requests, refusals, and compliment responses. Speech act strategies were compared between two groups of learners who reported different amounts of social contact (high and low social contact) as assessed via a self-report survey. Results showed that both high and low social contact groups favored using similar strategies to achieve the three speech acts. However, the high social contact group produced speech acts in a more sophisticated way: with a wider variety of request strategies, multiple refusal strategies used in combination and more deflecting strategies in compliment responses, compared with the low social contact group. The findings suggest that social contact helped learners expand their pragmalinguistic repertoire and employ more varied speech act strategies.


1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (27) ◽  
pp. 307-308
Author(s):  
E. Coates

Author(s):  
Ita Dwiyanti

LGBT is essentially an unusual behavior of social aberrations. The cause of a person to be LGBT was due to several factors, genetic, hormonal, gender role discomfort, peer group interaction, social. Human rights exist from the day we are born until we die, and the function of human rights to protect all rights including to live and get legal protection. In terms of human rights criminalizing a person is an offense for depriving them of their rights, but if there is a violation that man is doing, of course it is not a violation even though human rights existed from the moment we are born until we die. Court Decision Number 46/PUU-XIV/2016 becomes controversial because it is considered to have legalized LGBT. If read properly Court decision No. 46/ UU-XIV/2016 this Court does not intend to legalize LGBT but more consider the good and bad.


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