Request patterns by EFL Canarian Spanish students

Contrasting data by languages and research methods

Bibliographic Data

ID12859404
AuthorsMaría Isabel González Cruz (0000-0002-6815-2743, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume11
Issue4
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIntercultural Pragmatics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1612-295X • E-ISSN: 1613-365X
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ip-2014-0024
OpenAlexW2321450309
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This paper reports on empirical research, the purpose of which is fourfold. Firstly, we provide data regarding the realization patterns of requests made by Canarian Spanish students, both orally and in writing, in their mother tongue, a variety of Spanish. Secondly, since these undergraduates study English as a Foreign Language, we also examine the requests they make as non-native speakers of English. Two different methods were adopted for data elicitation, namely, open tape-recorded role-plays and Discourse Completion Tests (DCTs). Thirdly, we obtained a corpus of natural data through field notes taken from an array of real interactional situations in which different people spontaneously formulated requests. Finally, we try to determine to what extent the results in each phase differ depending on the method and the language used, thus contributing to the debate on the validity of research methods

Empirical research · English as a foreign language · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · First language · Foreign language · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Realization (probability · Statistics · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Artificial Intelligence

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