The current study investigated the types of invitation strategies as produced by Yemeni EFL learners. The study participants were 171 undergraduate students from Sana’a University. All of the participants were relatively homogeneous in terms of their cultural background. The data were collected by using Discourse Completion Test (DCT). The analysis of the data was based on Suzuki (2009), Al-Khatib (2006), and Tillitt and Bruder (1999) classifications of invitation strategies. The results of the study showed that Yemeni EFL learners preferred to be direct in the use of the speech act of invitation making, with highest frequency of imperative strategy followed by Yes/No questions strategy. This might reveal a part of the influence of their mother tongue on their responses. They were also aware that direct invitations were generally acceptable in their culture. Moreover, the results of the study showed Yemeni EFL learners translated the utterances in their mother tongue into the target language without pondering the differences between the two languages in sentence patterns and word order. Implications of the study are provided as well.

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也门EFL学习者制定的邀请策略

当前的研究调查了也门EFL学习者提出的邀请策略的类型。研究参与者为来自萨那大学的171名本科生。在文化背景方面，所有参与者都相对同质。通过使用话语完成测试（DCT）收集数据。数据分析基于邀请策略的Suzuki（2009），Al-Khatib（2006）和Tillitt and Bruder（1999）分类。研究结果表明，也门EFL学习者更喜欢直接使用邀请语的言语行为，命令式策略的频率最高，其次是是/否问题策略。这可能表明他们的母语对他们的反应有部分影响。他们还意识到直接邀请在他们的文化中通常是可以接受的。此外，研究结果表明，也门EFL学习者将其母语的发音转换为目标语言，而无需考虑这两种语言在句子模式和单词顺序方面的差异。还提供了研究的意义。