... NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANOI COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES POST-GRADUATE DEPARTMENT Phạm thị phơng thúy Pragmatic Transfer in Interlanguage Requesting by VietnameselearnersofEnglish (Nghiên cứu ... Transfer in Interlanguage Requesting by VietnameselearnersofEnglish (Nghiên cứu chuyển dịch ngữ dụng hành động yêu cầu liên ngôn ngời Việt học tiếng Anh) Summary of M.A Combined Program Thesis ... học tiếng Anh) Summary of M.A Combined Program Thesis Field: English Linguistics Code: 60.22.15 Hanoi, 2008 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANOI COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES POST-GRADUATE DEPARTMENT...
... indirectness: the case ofEnglish directives performed by native Japanese speakers Unpublished paper, University of Hawaii at Monoa Tam, H C (1998) Requests by Australian native speakers ofEnglish ... Principles of Pragmatics London: Longman Maeshiba, N., Yoshinaga, N., Kasper, G., & Ross, S (1996) Transfer and proficiency in interlanguage apologizing In J Neu & S Gass (eds.): Speech Acts across ... analysis of pragmatic transfer in the speech act of complaints as produced by native speakers of German and English Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Columbia University Ellis, R (1994) The Studies...
... refusal strategies The subjects were 60 NSs of English, 60 NSs of Spanish and 60 Spanish learnersofEnglish A DCT questionnaire was used to elicit refusals for 20 situations The data also concerned ... cases, the Spanish learnersofEnglish refused similarly to NSs of Spanish and differently from NSs of English, suggesting pragmatic transfer in this group However, in some cases, refusal strategies ... for the study were VietnameselearnersofEnglish (VELs) and native speakers ofEnglish (NSEs) The first 17 group consists of 20 advanced VietnameselearnersofEnglish (2 males, 18 females) They...
... situations to see whether ES and VL express gratitude the same as they in the situations of this study Secondly, this thesis focuses on how natives speakers ofEnglish in expressions of gratitude ... expression of disapprovals, criticisms etc (iii) Those acts that offend Ss negative face: expressing of thanks, excuses, acceptance of offers etc (iv) Those acts that directly damage Ss positive ... these sub-acts Suggestions for further research Firstly, more researches may be conducted on expressing gratitude by native speakers ofEnglish and VietnameselearnersofEnglish in different situations...
... Directives: are those kinds of speech acts that the speaker uses to get someone else to something (E.g: commands, requests, suggestions, ) ♦ Commissives: are those kinds of speech acts that the speaker ... researcher s preparation of questions and answers Multiple choice method with such advantages and disadvantages has been chosen to investigate VietnameselearnersofEnglish and native speakers’ assessment ... Assessment Questionnaire was administered a week later The Vietnamese version of the Assessment Questionnaire was completed by the native speakers ofVietnamese (V) and the English version was...
... others It is easy to understand why ending sounds were omitted so frequently, because in Vietnamese speakers not have to pronounce the ending sounds In addition, some of the sounds, such as /, ... omission of sounds in medial position, combinations of consonants are frequently found It is explainable that this way of controlling the speech organs is unfamiliar to Vietnamese learners, as Vietnamese ... the carelessness and laziness of the students The students who made this kind of mistakes usually not try to find out how the tongue act in each case, instead they make all these sounds similar...
... States English or U .S English, is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States Approximately two thirds of native speakers ofEnglish live in the United States English ... creole to a more standard version ofEnglishOf those nations where English is spoken as a second language, India has the most such speakers ('Indian English' ) Crystal claims that, combining ... widespread use English has been given official status by 30 of the 50 state governments The use ofEnglish in the United States was inherited from British colonization The first wave of English- speaking...
... Task consisted of sentences comprising words ending in these sounds In task 3, the material was a short conversation with some words ending in these sounds Task contained two texts The first ... two more English courses named English for Business and Economics and English for Business and Economics The course books for these two specialized English courses were Head for Business (Intermediate ... // They often confused these sounds with other sounds The confusing sounds are classified into pairs: / /- /s/ , / /- /z/, //-/z/ or /s/ , /t∫/ -/ć/ The confusion of these sounds is due to...
... words by VietnameselearnersofEnglish on Facebook, sound- based substitution discovered in the intervened statuses and comments is listed in the table as follows 26 Sound – based abbreviation Sound ... advantage of words with similar sounds, VietnameselearnersofEnglish can lessen characters of what they post on Facebook, followed by their less time of typing b Initialism Table shows the list of ... to English, there exists a list of dialects of this language such as British English, American English, Australian English, and Canadian English and so on Until now the issue called „Global English ...
... stress B6 - Linking sounds B7 B8 B9 - Endingsounds - Stress - Ending sounds - Word & sentence stress = - Ending sounds - Word & sentence stress = express ideas fully - Using less common words ... sentence stress = - Ending sounds - Word & sentence stress - Linking sounds = A4 A5 - Endings - Word stress - Ending sounds - Word & sentence stress = Grammar Spontaneo us response/ interactio ... first speaking classes This means that each student would have a story consisting of „scenes‟ – snapshots of lessons they took Yet some students were absent from class several times, and this...
... style ofEnglish and Vietnamese resignation letters, this study focuses on comparing and contrasting discourse structure ofEnglish and Vietnamese resignation letters Aims of the Study: ... about discourse analysis ofEnglish and Vietnamese resignation letters I only concentrate on analyzing English and Vietnamese resignation letters in terms of discourse structures Research Question: ... discourse structure of resignation letters in English and Vietnamese Besides, in order to find out the similarities and differences between discourse structure ofEnglish and Vietnamese resignation...
... native speakers ofEnglish and native speakers ofVietnamese and VietnameselearnersofEnglish The result of this source of data helps to analyse common errors of conversational routines made by Vietnamese ... are useful for VietnameselearnersofEnglish This thesis is designed as a study on the effects of transfer ofVietnamese conversational conventions to the target conversational discourse It is ... meanings and the meaningfulness of these expressions Excessive currency corrupts expressiveness and diminishes meaningfulness Phrases such as, Good to see you! How are you? Take care! I haven’t seen...
... cases, to Table 4.3 The summary of the ways of translating Gerund clauses Classification 4.2.1 As Subjects Of Verbs Functions infinitive clauses are used 4.2.2 As Objects Of Verbs As objects of ... clauses are subordinate clauses The appearance - Improve translating skills - Suggest some impications in VietnameseEnglish translation ofEnglish non – finite clauses 1.3 THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY ... CHAPTER FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 WAYS OF TRANSLATING NON – FINITE CLAUSES By studying English non – finite clauses and their Vietnamese equivalents in English novels, short stories, books and public...
... study It consists of antonyms and polysemy Chapter II: The antonyms of polysemantic words in English Chapter III: Implication: gives some releated problems, suggested solutions and provides some ... therefore, some senses of light is opposite some senses of heavy For example: Hes been a heavy smoker and drinker all his adult life (1.1.2) (BBC World Service/ Learning English. com) The senses of heavy ... cost of a business exceeds its revenue Thank to the contrary number of money which the company earn; profit is the antonym of loss To sum up, we might the pairs of antonyms: loss win, loss ...
... 245 Experiments Experimental Conditions A set of essays9 written by Japanese learnersofEnglish was used as the target essays in the experiments It consisted of 47 essays (3180 words) on the topic ... decision lists are used for distinguishing mass and count nouns One of the reasons for the use of decision lists is that they have been shown to be effective to the word sense disambiguation task ... instance in question is tagged with count Otherwise, the question at the lower node is applied and so on The tagging rules not classify instances as mass or count in some cases These unclassified...
... encyclopedia, slang consists of a lexicon of non-standard words and phrases in a given language Use of these words and phrases is typically associated with the subversion of a standard variety (such as Standard ... discusses the research findings from the survey questionnaire of this study The results are divided into sections The first section presents and discusses the knowledge of slang of the students ... slang, specially, the words and phrases towards the phenomenon ofVietnamese equivalent ofEnglish in such aspects as the extent of the knowledge of slang, the frequency of using slang, the reasons...
... Students’ perceptions of the causes of those mistakes Finding out the causes of the students‟ mistakes withEnglish sounds can be considered as a key to solve the problems so that is the reason ... to understand why endingsound such as /ʤ / was so frequently (85 % of the students omitted this sound as ending sounds) because Vietnameselearners not have to pronounce the ending sounds In addition, ... most frequent mistakes ofVietnamese beginners ofEnglish are sound omission and sound confusion The causes of these mistakes will be mentioned in the following part 2.1.5.3 Possible causes of...