The effect of synchronous and asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) on EFL learners' pragmatic competence

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Highlights：

• Both the Syn and Asyn groups generated roughly similar frequencies of indirect speech acts.

• The Asyn group tended to use the syntactic and lexical modifiers more frequently.

• The Syn group tended to vary their request strategies more in accordance with the levels of imposition.

摘要

•Both the Syn and Asyn groups generated roughly similar frequencies of indirect speech acts.•The Asyn group tended to use the syntactic and lexical modifiers more frequently.•The Syn group tended to vary their request strategies more in accordance with the levels of imposition.

论文关键词：asynchronous CMC,Computer-mediated communication (CMC),Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP),Synchronous CMC

论文评审过程：Received 9 July 2018, Revised 16 October 2018, Accepted 7 November 2018, Available online 8 November 2018, Version of Record 18 January 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.11.015