An edition of Learning to Request in a Second Language (2003)
Learning to Request in a Second Language
A Study of Child Interlanguage Pragmatics (Second Language Acquisition 2)
By Machiko Achiba
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Publish Date
March 2003
Publisher
Multilingual Matters Limited
Language
eng
Pages
223
Description:
This book examines the acquisition of requests in English by a seven-year old Japanese girl during her 17-month residence in Australia. The study focuses on the linguistic repertoire available to the child as she attempts to make requests and vary these to suit different goals and addressees.