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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya
2015-06-01
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Series: | Beyond Words |
Online Access: | http://journal.wima.ac.id/index.php/BW/article/view/677 |