A comparative study of Korean and Chinese learners' strategy use in request-refusal continuous dialogue speech acts.

PLoS One · 2026 · PMC13422866 · PMID 42531332

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For the total number of request strategies used in a single dialogue, the overall between-group difference was statistically highly significant ( p < 0.001, eta2 = 0.2598, large effect).

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