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ERIC Number: EJ635227
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0023-8333
Learning the Rules for Offering Advice: A Quantitative Approach to Second Language Socialization.
Matsumura, Shoichi
Language Learning, v51 n4 p635-79 Dec 2001
Focuses on changes over time in university level Japanese students' sociocultural perceptions of social status during the year they studied abroad in Canada and the impact of the changes on their pragmatic use of English when offering advice. Compared the development of 97 Japanese exchange students' pragmatic competence with that of 102 peers in Japan who did not undertake a year abroad. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interpersonal Competence, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Socialization, Socioeconomic Status, Study Abroad
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Japanese People