Making a Request For a Service In Spanish: Pragmatic Development In the Study Abroad Setting

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Abstract

This study addresses the development of the request strategies used in two service encounter scenarios by 31 nonnative speakers of Spanish spending 4 months living and studying in Valencia, Spain. The main method of data collection was an open role-play in which participants interacted with a Spanish native speaker. Results show that while there were some aspects of the learners' request production that changed after the study abroad experience, there were other aspects that remained unaffected. Knowing which aspects from the nonnative speakers' request production are acquired and which ones are not after a student has been immersed in the target culture for 4 months is relevant to informing second language acquisition, specifically the field of interlanguage pragmatics in the study abroad setting.

Publication Title

Foreign Language Annals

Volume

43

Issue

1

First Page

160

Last Page

175

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