Egyptian EFL Speakers’ Direction-Giving Strategies: A Cross-Cultural, Cross Linguistic Study

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This study is a cross-cultural, cross-linguistic study that depends on natural data to examine the strategies of direction-giving used by Egyptian students learning English as a foreign language and compares the strategies used in those sequences to direction-giving sequences in baseline data (LI Egyptian Arabic speakers). The research investigates the applicability of wunderlich and reinelt’s (1982) “interactional scheme” to the Arabic language as LI. The research also examines the role of language transfer in the acquisition of English L2 direction-giving.