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Publication details [#65762]

Ren, Wei. 2019. Pragmatic development of Chinese during study abroad: A cross-sectional study of learner requests. Journal of Pragmatics 146 : 137–149.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L2-acquisition | learning | modifier | pragmatics | request

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper explores the impact of longer study abroad (SA) periods on learners' L2 Chinese requests. Learners fostered conventionally indirect requests more as the SA lenght expanded. Compared to external modifiers, internal modifiers posed bigger problems. The impact of SA period on learners' pragmatic growth is an intricate issue.