Evaluating Speech acts in ELT Textbooks: The Case of Compliments and Complaints in the Touchstone Series

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Mahdieh Jalilian ¹ , Ali Roohani ²

1 - Department of English, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Shahrekord University

Received: 2016-04-16 Accepted : 2016-07-16 Published : 2016-07-16

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