Politeness Strategies
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Title: Politeness Strategies in Students’ Classroom Questions
Author: Rita Simpson
Date: June, 2004
Summary: This worksheet, originally developed for a conference presentation, introduces ‘politeness norms’ when asking questions. It gives suggestions for how to form polite questions. Students are then asked to identify polite questions from MICASE examples, and then form them independently.
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