Hong Kong EFL Learners Politeness Strategy Use in Production and Perception of Requests and Refusals

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Hiu Wai Chan ◽  
Jookyoung Jung
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2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Y. Duvernay Nicholas ◽  

Author(s):  
Ming-yueh Shen

Abstract This study aimed to determine as to whether or not the text type and strategy usage affect the EFL learners’ lexical inferencing performance. The participants were comprised of 87 first-year English majors at a technical university. Data were collected from (1) a lexical inferencing test with excerpts of narrative and expository texts, for which both multiple-choice and definition tasks were designed, respectively, and then (2) the responses from the learners’ self-reported strategy usage. The quantitative analyses demonstrated that the text types significantly affected the EFL learners’ lexical inferencing performance, in which the EFL learners performed better for the narrative excerpt than for the expository texts. However, significant coefficients between the strategy use and the lexical inferencing performance were not found in this study. The results further implied that the text structure and the lexical inferencing strategies should be explicitly taught to the EFL learners.


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