Tóm tắt
This paper presents some linguistic and cultural features of English requests. It focuses on their structural properties of requests and communicative strategies in use, and on the analysis of the use of requests by native speakers of English and by Vietnamese EFL learners. The purpose of this article is to raise the EFL learners’ linguistic awareness and pragmatic competence in their use of English. Accordingly, the author makes suggestions for EFL teaching and learning for communicative purposes.