... encouraging strategies: appreciating someone, reassuring H’s feelings, offering help, predicting better future possibilities, suggesting things to do, giving advice, expressing belief and giving ... of English and Vietnamese, they still fail in communication. I hope that through my thesis, I can find some implications in teaching and learning expressions of encouraging in English and ... speakers of English and native speakers of Vietnamese for encouraging as a speech act. - To suggest solutions for the English teaching and learning of encouraging in English and Vietnamese...