Publications

Publication details [#53245]

Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria and Helen Woodfield. 2010. ‘I just need more time’: A study of native and non-native students' requests to faculty for an extension. Multilingua 29 (1) : 77–118.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L2-acquisition | request | speech act, L2-acquisition of | student | university

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This study explores the status-unequal extension requests of 89 advanced mixed-L1 learning and 87 British English native speaking university students. It then overpoises how the quantitative and qualitative differences in speech act behaviour patterns affect learner development.