Gender Effects on Advanced Chinese EFL Learners’ Request Strategies --A Contrastive Study of Request Strategies in Chinese and English 性别因素对中国高水平英语学习者请求策略的影响---一项对英语学习者英、汉请求策略的对比研究.docVIP

南 京 大 学 研 究 生 毕 业 论 文 （申请硕士学位） 论 文 题 目 性别因素对中国高水平英语学习者请求策略的影响一项对英语学习者英、汉请求策略的对比研究 作 者 姓 名 专 业 名 称 英语语言文学 研 究 方 向 语用学 指 导 教 师 2008 年 5 月 4 日  Gender Effects on Advanced Chinese EFL Learners’ Request Strategies --A Contrastive Study of Request Strategies in Chinese and English by Ma Xinjian Under the Supervision of Professor Chen Xinren Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts English Department School of Foreign Studies Nanjing University May 4, 2008  I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person or material which has to a substantial extent been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at any university or other institute of higher learning, except where due acknowledgement has been made in the text. Signature: Name: Ma Xinjian Date: May 4, 2008 Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to those who have offered me all kinds of help in completing this thesis. First, my deepest gratitude goes to my supervisor Professor Chen Xinren, who has been helping me all the way through the design, development and revision of the thesis. He has offered me great help in choosing the present topic, provided constructive suggestions for analyzing the data and taken great pains reading my thesis draft by draft. Without his encouragement and advice, I could not have completed this thesis. My heart-felt thanks also go to Professor Ding Yanren, who equipped me with the basic knowledge in the field of SLA, Professor Wang Wenyu, who taught me how to develop a M.A thesis from the first step of finding an issue till writing up a whole thesis in the seminar, and D