A Study of the Speech Act of Apologies by Chinese EFL Learners at Different Levels of Grammatical Proficiency
- DOI
- 10.2991/hsmet-18.2018.109How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Communicative competence, Pragmatic competence, Grammatical competence, The speech act of apology
- Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to report on a study examining the developmental pragmatic competence of Chinese learner of English at different levels of grammatical proficiency. Bardovi-Harlig argues that although grammatical competence may not be a sufficient condition for pragmatic development, it may be a necessary condition [10]. The study investigates the relationship between grammatical proficiency levels and the realization of apologies by Chinese learners in Chinese EFL context.The findings suggest that the students’ level of grammatical proficiency does have an influence on their performance of the speech act of apology.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Qian Jiang PY - 2018/06 DA - 2018/06 TI - A Study of the Speech Act of Apologies by Chinese EFL Learners at Different Levels of Grammatical Proficiency BT - Proceedings of the 2018 3rd International Conference on Humanities Science, Management and Education Technology (HSMET 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 547 EP - 552 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/hsmet-18.2018.109 DO - 10.2991/hsmet-18.2018.109 ID - Jiang2018/06 ER -