صيغة الطلب عند متعلمي اللغة العربية كلغة ثانية: تأثير المستوى اللغوي والمنزلة الاجتماعية

الملخص EN

TMs paper investigates requests made by L2 learners of Arabic.

Particularly, it focuses on the influence of language proficiency and social status on their use of requests.

There were 40 participants in this study and they were further divided evenly into four groups: beginner, intermediate, advanced and native-speaker.

The data was collected using of role plays; the participants were asked to play three roles varying in social status.

The findings indicate that the beginner group relied heavily on the production of direct requests whereas the direct requests decreased markedly and the conventional indirect requests were noticeably favored in the intermediate group.

The advanced group, however, made use of both direct and conventional indirect requests with almost a same frequency which enabled them to approximate the native speaker group more than the other groups.

In addition, the findings show that the social states had no noticeable influence on all learner and native speaker groups in terms of their use of requests.

It can be concluded, therefore, that learners’ language proficiency plays a key role in their production of requests in Arabic.

This may cast some doubts on the developmental stages ofL2 requests found in studies on western languages.