Examining American and Chinese Students’ Strategies When Giving Face-to-Face Critical Feedback in Academic Settings

• Published in: Journal of Asia TEFL Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 766 - 786
• Main Author: Chau, Nguyen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Seoul Asia TEFL 01.09.2018; 아시아테플
• Subjects: Apologies; Asian students; Compliments; Feedback; Interviews; Politeness; Semi Structured Interviews; Speech acts; Students; 영어와문학

While the literature on popular Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) such as complaining, requesting, promising, apologizing, and giving and receiving compliments is thriving, the speech act of giving critical feedback in an intercultural setting is quite understudied (but see Itakura & Tsui, 2011; Nguy...