@article{oai:kanagawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006273,
 author = {Churchill, Eton},
 journal = {神奈川大学言語研究},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This paper examines the acquisition of requests by lower-level Japanese learners of English during an exchange program to the United States. Notebook data (Beebe, 1994) was collected on naturally occurring requests by 47 high school learners of English prior to and following a one-month study abroad program. The findings revealed a decreased frequency in direct realization strategies and an increased use of conventionally indirect strategies and grounders following the exchange. A closer look at learner production showed that this trend could be partially attributed to a learner tendency to combine want to statements with other conventionally indirect strategies. Given that the use of want to statements may be a feature of linguistic transfer from Japanese, it is suggested that teachers use contrastive analysis to help raise learner awareness of their use of this strategy. It is also suggested that learners be made aware of how use of this strategy in isolation may be perceived as inappropriately direct by native speakers of English.},
 pages = {91--103},
 title = {The Effect of a Study Abroad Program on Request Realizations by Japanese Learners of English},
 volume = {24},
 year = {2002}
}