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Lagune evaluation: an analysis of request strategies by UPM German learners

This study aims to find out to what extent German Malaysian learners at UPM can perform request strategies and the influences of Lagune course books on learners' production of request strategies. This study also describes correlation between the acquisition of request strategies by German Forei...

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Main Authors: Chin, Safinur, Mamat, Roslina, Burkhardt, Jurgen M., Farid, Farhana
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2018
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/74818/1/Lagune%20evaluation.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.748182020-10-17T20:13:31Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/74818/ Lagune evaluation: an analysis of request strategies by UPM German learners Chin, Safinur Mamat, Roslina Burkhardt, Jurgen M. Farid, Farhana This study aims to find out to what extent German Malaysian learners at UPM can perform request strategies and the influences of Lagune course books on learners' production of request strategies. This study also describes correlation between the acquisition of request strategies by German Foreign Language (GFL) learners and the content in Lagune course books. Data was collected from third, fifth and seventh semester undergraduate learners using a pragmatic tool which is written discourse completion task (WDCT) questionnaires in German language. In addition, three course books were evaluated qualitatively. To analyse the data, the head act response was categorized based on Trosborg (1995) request classification strategies model and modification devices taxonomy from Soler et al. (2005). The findings indicated that seventh semester learners produced a variety of strategies performance than third and fifth semester learners and the Lagune course books have strong influence towards the strategies performed by the learners. Hence, Lagune course books give strong impact to the acquisition of requisitive strategies on third year German languages learners. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2018-01 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/74818/1/Lagune%20evaluation.pdf Chin, Safinur and Mamat, Roslina and Burkhardt, Jurgen M. and Farid, Farhana (2018) Lagune evaluation: an analysis of request strategies by UPM German learners. Asian Journal of Applied Communication, 7 (1). pp. 11-23. ISSN 2231-9948
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description This study aims to find out to what extent German Malaysian learners at UPM can perform request strategies and the influences of Lagune course books on learners' production of request strategies. This study also describes correlation between the acquisition of request strategies by German Foreign Language (GFL) learners and the content in Lagune course books. Data was collected from third, fifth and seventh semester undergraduate learners using a pragmatic tool which is written discourse completion task (WDCT) questionnaires in German language. In addition, three course books were evaluated qualitatively. To analyse the data, the head act response was categorized based on Trosborg (1995) request classification strategies model and modification devices taxonomy from Soler et al. (2005). The findings indicated that seventh semester learners produced a variety of strategies performance than third and fifth semester learners and the Lagune course books have strong influence towards the strategies performed by the learners. Hence, Lagune course books give strong impact to the acquisition of requisitive strategies on third year German languages learners.
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author Chin, Safinur
Mamat, Roslina
Burkhardt, Jurgen M.
Farid, Farhana
spellingShingle Chin, Safinur
Mamat, Roslina
Burkhardt, Jurgen M.
Farid, Farhana
Lagune evaluation: an analysis of request strategies by UPM German learners
author_facet Chin, Safinur
Mamat, Roslina
Burkhardt, Jurgen M.
Farid, Farhana
author_sort Chin, Safinur
title Lagune evaluation: an analysis of request strategies by UPM German learners
title_short Lagune evaluation: an analysis of request strategies by UPM German learners
title_full Lagune evaluation: an analysis of request strategies by UPM German learners
title_fullStr Lagune evaluation: an analysis of request strategies by UPM German learners
title_full_unstemmed Lagune evaluation: an analysis of request strategies by UPM German learners
title_sort lagune evaluation: an analysis of request strategies by upm german learners
publisher Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
publishDate 2018
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/74818/1/Lagune%20evaluation.pdf
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