Learner’s English Proficiency and their Pragmatic Competence of Refusal Speech Acts

Abstract The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between language proficiency and ‎pragmatic comprehension of the refusal speech act among Iranian EFL learners. To this end, the ‎Oxford Placement Test (OPT), as a proficiency test, was given to participants and they were ‎div...

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Main Authors: Soudabeh Tabatabaei, Maryam Farnia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya 2015-06-01
Series:Beyond Words
Online Access:http://journal.wima.ac.id/index.php/BW/article/view/677