Early approaches to politeness in academia, ELT materials and our language classroom have focussed mainly on our learners emulating the native speaker (NS) models of politeness and although non-native speaker interactions (NNS<->NNS) now take prominence in a global world where English is used as the predominant Lingua Franca (ELF), few have attempted to investigate the NNS perceptions of fellow NNSs’ requests. Does the non-native speaker's choice of language affect the impressions they are creating? Would ELF users evaluate the politeness of these requests in the same way that a native-speaker does? This talk seeks to discuss what and how we choose to teach, and reports on the results of the research I have done on the subject.

The workshop takes place online at 16.00 CET on Sunday, 5 February 2012

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Workshop with Chia Suan Chong

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