Interlanguage Request Modification
Edited by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis and Helen Woodfield
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 217] 2012. ix, 318 pp.
Helen Woodfield
List of John Benjamins publications for which Helen Woodfield plays a role.
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Subjects Language acquisition | Pragmatics
2017 Chapter 13. A crosssectional study of Syrian EFL learners’ pragmatic development: Towards a taxonomy of modification in interlanguage requests Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics, Kecskés, István and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 297–322 | Chapter
This study investigates developmental patterns in the requestive behaviour of Syrian learners of English as a foreign language (SEFL). Employing a written discourse completion task (WDCT), off-line production of English requests in 12 contextually varied (equal-status and unequal-status) situations… read more
2012 Pragmatic variation in learner perception: The role of retrospective verbal report in L2 speech act research Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological issues, Félix-Brasdefer, J. César and Dale Koike (eds.), pp. 209–238 | Article
The present study examines pragmatic variation in learner perception, exploring the role of retrospective verbal report (RVR) in L2 speech act research. RVRs consist of the verbalized thought processes of participants after completion of a task and aim to provide insights into the reasoning behind… read more
2012 “I think maybe I want to lend the notes from you”: Development of request modification in graduate learners Interlanguage Request Modification, Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria and Helen Woodfield (eds.), pp. 9–50 | Article
This study examines the development of request modification strategies in eight graduate students from Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan in a British university. The study employed open role plays (Kasper 2008) to collect interlanguage data on three occasions over eight months. The role plays… read more
2012 Modification in interlanguage requests: Introduction Interlanguage Request Modification, Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria and Helen Woodfield (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article