The sociocultural approach to writing strategy use emphasizes the importance of context and the mediating resources that learners can use to enhance the quality of their performance in writing (Lei, 2008). Accordingly, the present study explored the sociocultural strategy use of a convenient sample of 105 BA level students of English Language and Literature who had passed essay-writing courses ...

p-silylated n,n-dialkyl amines (5) were easily synthesized in good to excellent yield from aldehydes (1), trimethylsilyldialkylamines (2), and trimethylsilylmethylmagnesium chloride (4) in the presence of 5 m lithium perchlorate solution in diethyl ether. the reaction of (2) with aldehyde proceeded smoothly in the lici0 , to give the imimum salt (3). addition of trimethylsilylmethylrnagnesium c...

The paper argues that everyday exchange of business emails produces a development in the work-group relationship, which, in turn, makes new communication styles possible and acceptable by the users' habit to computer-mediated forms, even in unbalanced professional exchanges. The focus is on the (spoken) discourse features of email messages in a self-compiled corpus of selected computer-mediated...

this study investigated the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of requests by college-level english as foreign language (efl) learners in taiwan. the goal was to determine first whether the use of explicit pragmatic instruction had a positive effect on efl learners’ pragmatic competence. second, the relative effectiveness of presenting pragmatics through two deli...