This study makes use of elicited request speech act data in Finnish to view variability personal perspective and T/V forms across a variety situations. The speakers exhibited great deal congruency when they were scripted as addressing someone familiar, being position equal or higher status than the interlocutor, was considered low imposition. In such situations, tended second person perspective...

  Concerns over the phony nature of textbooks and artificiality of their contents in reflecting authentic language have been raised by a number of researchers. It has been argued that many language teaching programs result in the failure of learners of English to successfully communicate in the target language. The problem with these programs is that there is no general agreement about the succ...