Dear Minoo,

Thanks for clarifying the request. I hope you get some good responses.

You might to go to our language & linguistics group and/or social sciences group , ask for volunteers there too.

Peter M.



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Peter J. Matthews, Chief Admin.,
The Research Cooperative,
Auckland & Kyoto.

Contact: researchcooperative [at] gmail [dot] com

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your guidance. Actually I'm looking for volunteer English native speakers who like to have contribution in a research. It's for my PhD dissertation and all privacy will be assured and finally I will announce the results. This questionnaire is about 4 speech acts of aplogoy,request,refusal,and complaint which an EFL learner made and now I would like to see how native English speakers and Iranian teachersas non-native English speakers score and rate these 24 items in this questionnaire and find the differences.It takes about 20 minutes if anybody is interested to help.Even if they don't have that time,they can just rate 6 items of one of the speech acts in that questionnaire. I will appreciate my colleagues' cooperation.

Best regards,

Minoo

Dear Minoo,

Please explain the purpose of the questionnaire more clearly. The title indicates an academic help request which probably means you are looking for volunteers, but please explain this and opther matters directly first, so other people can decide whether or not your request is genuine, and whether or not they want to click on the link.

1) Are you looking for volunteers?

2) What kind of academic project this is for? Are you working for someone else?

3) Who is collecting the data?

4) Will private or personal-identifying information be collected or not? If yes, is privacy assured?

5) Will participants be told about the results at the end of the survey period?

6) What is the survey period? i.e. what is the deadline for answering this questionnaire.

Unless you make an effort to explain what you are doing, you cannot expect people to volunteer to give their time to the project.

Good luck!

Peter (Admin., Research Co-op)

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Peter J. Matthews, Chief Admin.,
The Research Cooperative,
Auckland & Kyoto.

Contact: researchcooperative [at] gmail [dot] com

Dear English Native Speakers,

Would you please fill out a questionnaire regarding scoring 4 speech acts in 24 situations in the following link? It takes about 20 minutes.https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DDMFR8K

I will appreciate your cooperation.

Best,

Minoo

updated by @minoo-alemi: 21/01/17 10:16:28PM