Read research about social distance and lanaguage learning!
From: https://doi.org/10.18627/jslg.31.4.201602.817
Abstract:
This paper aims to analyze types of pragmatic strategies that are used in English e-mail requests and to focus on EFL students’ e-mail writings in terms of the performance of requests, dividing the recipients by their social distance from the students. DCT was used for the study with nine different contextual settings. Thirty participants were divided by their English proficiency, in order to find out whether or not there are any differences in line with using request strategies at different levels. From the research, the results show that there are differences in using request strategies based on English proficiency. The advanced and intermediate participants preferred conventionally indirect strategies the most, while the beginner groups primarily employed direct strategies. The various request strategies were used in different contextual settings, however conventionally indirect and direct strategies were employed most and the marker please was used in most direct strategies. In contrast to previous studies related to e-mail writing, this study found that the participants used compensation strategy.
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