The speech act of apology made by vietnamese efl learners

... summary of the major findings of comparing the speech act production of apology made by native speakers of Vietnamese and English and Vietnamese EFL learners Besides, it is followed by some pedagogical... Part A is the introduction of the study including the identification of the problem, the aims, the objectives, the scope of the study, the significance, the research method as well as the organization... through the use of a string of fabricated words, namely speech acts (Nunan, 1999) 1.2.3 Speech act of Apology A speech act of apology, as Marquez-Reiter (2000: 44) stated, is a ―compensatory action