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Publication details [#64413]

Al-Gahtani, Saad and Carsten Roever. 2018. Proficiency and preference organization in second language refusals. Journal of Pragmatics 129 : 140–153.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language proficiency | interaction | preference organization | refusing | second language acquisition

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

L2 refusals develop with raising competence. Learners display greater ranges of lexical and sequential tools. Learners become increasingly skilled to retard and soothe their refusals. Differences with native speakers persist.