The New English Teacher: Vol. 13. No. 1, (January 2019)
Recent Submissions
Say what?: Filipino ESL learners’ semantic formula in expressing complaints
(Assumption University Press, 2019)
Complaining is one of the difficult tasks one has to do because when one complains,
one does not only express some displeasure but also expects some form of repair. Hence, it
is important for language learners to be taught how to effectively do so. Despite this, the
teaching of the speech act of complaint has been taken for granted: either very little is
included or it is absent in the language classroom instruction. This study attempts to examine
how Filipino ESL learners structure their complaints. Featuring 18 situations calibrated on
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