Table of Contents

Abstract
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
1 Introduction
1.1 Pragmatic Competence
1.2 Speech Acts
1.3 The Speech Act of Refusal
1.4 Production of Refusal by Language Learners
1.4.1 Production of Refusal by Foreign Language Learners
1.4.2 Production of Refusal by Second Language Learners
1.4.3 Discussion and Summary of the Literature Review
1.5 The Classification of Refusals by Beebe et al.
1.6 The Classification of Illocutionary Acts by Searle
1.7 Research Questions
2 Methods
2.1 Participants
2.2 Instruments
2.3 Data Coding
2.4 Alternative Hypotheses
3 Results and Discussion
3.1 Results
3.2 Discussion
4 Implications, Limitation and Suggestion
4.1 Implications
4.2 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research
References
Appendix A
Power Point Slides for the Role Play Scenarios