The present study tracks the longitudinal pragmatic development of spoken requests by
Japanese, adult learners of English during an academic year abroad, and aims to examine …

Teaching Pragmatics 2 a favour from someone, aside from knowing what forms and lexis are
needed to produce the request (grammatical competence), users need to consider their …

Although several linguists have examined the studies on study abroad (SA), limited studies
have focused on online study-abroad contexts. The current study investigates the production …

This study investigates the immediate and sustained effects of a pre-departure study abroad
training on the oral production of L2 Chinese formulaic language across a range of social …

There have been a number of studies on the use of complaints as a speech act. The majority
of these studies have included analysis of how different first language speakers make …

This special issue illustrates current research on the development of second language (L2)
pragmatic competence in study abroad (SA) contexts. In doing so, it accounts for the …

This longitudinal study seeks to contribute to a shortage of email investigations examining
expert (L1) and novice (L2) English practices and tracking L2 developmental change during …

Like other speech acts, refusals are sensitive to a range of social variables such as gender,
age, level of education, power, and social distance, but empirical studies on refusals appear …

The development of pragmatic competence has been one of the main research issues of the
second language (L2) pragmatic acquisition and gained extensive investigation in the last …

The past few decades have seen a dramatic increase in the internationalization of higher
education institutions (HEIs), from study abroad programs to increasing internationalization …