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Publication details [#47095]
Achiba, Machiko. 2003. Learning to Request in a Second Language. A Study of Child Interlanguage Pragmatics. (Second Language Acquisition). Multilingual Matters. 248 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This study explores English as a second language request acquisition by a seven year old Japanese girl during her stay of 17 months in Australia, thus contributing to unravel characteristics of pragmatic development in the child's interlanguage.