Jordanian EFL and American Students' Use of Warning in English

Jordanian EFL and American Students' Use of Warning in English

A Contrastive Study

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This study aims at investigating differences in the use of the speech act of warning in English between Jordanian EFL and American undergraduate students. The researchers used a 20-item questionnaire in which each item portrays a situation which warrants a warning, and analyzed the students' answers to determine the warning strategies used, which group uses warning more, and the linguistic forms used in the speech act of warning. The findings have revealed that the two groups used 21 simple strategies to express warning, of which 13 are used by both groups, 2 by Americans, and 6 by Jordanians....