What is it about?
For native English-speaking learners of Chinese, when they request, their language use tend to be more like English or more like Chinese or neither? Read the paper if you are interested.
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Why is it important?
It is important because this can provide suggestions for Chinese language teachers whether they need to teach pragmatic skills. Good language use can help learners achieve communication goals. Otherwise, consequences can be serious in intercultural communications.
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I do like this piece of work. My colleague Dr Lucy Li has co-authored this publication.
Wendy Jiang
University of Queensland
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This page is a summary of: Requests Made by Australian Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language, Journal of Language Teaching and Research, January 2019, Academy Publication,
DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1001.03.
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