Sequential Organization of Requests by Learners Of Vietnamese

dc.contributor.author Nguyen, Ngoc Bao Chau
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-17T20:21:56Z
dc.date.available 2018-07-17T20:21:56Z
dc.date.issued 2018-07-16
dc.description.abstract The most comprehensively studied speech act in interlanguage pragmatics to date has been requests. However, the body of research on requests by L2 learners has mainly been done on English or European languages, such as Spanish, French or Hebrew as a second language. There have been very few developmental studies published on requests in Asian languages. For a relatively less taught and studied language like Vietnamese, the literature on L2 learners’ requests, especially pertaining to Vietnamese pragmatics, is close to non-existent. This study was implemented to gather a better understanding of interlanguage pragmatics of L2 learners of Vietnamese. Elicited data from role-plays of requests were analysed based on Al-Gahtani and Roever’s 2012 discursive approach which focuses on the sequential organization of interactions. Findings indicate that compared to higher-level learners, lower-level learners used fewer pre-expansions, and the first pair-parts occurred earlier in the sequence. The interlocutor also accommodated to learners’ proficiency level when introducing complications, which resulted in fewer elaborated request sequences from learners with lower proficiency. The findings offer implications for teaching Vietnamese as a foreign language as well as methodological implications for gathering data and analyzing the sequential organization of speech acts in South-East Asian languages, such as Vietnamese.
dc.format.extent 13 pages
dc.identifier.issn 1836-6821
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52428
dc.subject interlanguage pragmatics
dc.subject Vietnamese pragmatics
dc.subject sequential organization
dc.subject requests
dc.subject.languagecode vie
dc.title Sequential Organization of Requests by Learners Of Vietnamese
dc.type Data paper
dc.type.dcmi Text
prism.endingpage xxv
prism.number 2
prism.publicationname Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage xii
prism.volume 11
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