Developing Pragmatic Awareness of Requests in the EFL Classroom: A Focus on Instructional Effects [PDF]
Explicit teaching of pragmatics to second language learners has been studied by a large number of researchers. However, the review of the related studies shows that while some researchers believe in the effectiveness of explicit instruction of pragmatics,
Sadegh Sadeghinezhad
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In a recent study, English‐speaking L2 learners of German who received explicit instruction made significantly greater improvements in pronunciation and vocabulary than learners who received implicit instruction.
James M. Stratton
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Effective stance-taking is considered as a crucial skill for successful academic writing and sustainable development of writing scholarship. However, student writers often encounter difficulties in this aspect.
Lu Zhang, L. Zhang
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Long-term effects of explicit versus implicit instruction on EFL writing
This study investigated the long-term effectiveness of explicit versus implicit instruction in a classroom setting. The participants were 114 Dutch secondary school students learning English as an L2; a control group received explicit and an ...
Huimin Ke +3 more
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Cultivating L2 Pragmatic Comprehension through Computerized vs. Non-Computerized Instruction, Multiuser Virtual Environments (MUVEs) and Mobile Augmented Reality Games (MARGs) [PDF]
Pragmatic comprehension is a central albeit under-researched dimension of pragmatic competence in which most EFL learners suffer from serious deficiencies; therefore, the current study was launched to compare the effects of the Non-Computer Mediated ...
Amir shakouri +2 more
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Exploring the effects of instruction on EFL learners’ pragmatic development [PDF]
In the present study an attempt was made to focus on pragmatic instruction and feedback as a kind of discriminatory factor. To teach English compliment and compliment responses, this paper evaluated the relative effectiveness of input-based instruction ...
Ali Mohammad Fazilatfar, Masoud Cheraghi
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A Comparative Study of Explicit and Implicit Mediators at Iranian High Schools: Students’ L2 Anxiety and Listening Comprehension [PDF]
As conceptualized in Vygotsky’s (1978) theory of mediation, the present quantitative study scrutinized the impact of explicit and implicit mediators on high school students’ L2 listening anxiety and listening comprehension. Over six months, two groups of
Mohammad Darijani +2 more
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The Dramatic Impact of Explicit Instruction on Learning to Read in a New Writing System
There is profound and long-standing debate over the role of explicit instruction in reading acquisition. In this research, we investigated the impact of teaching regularities in the writing system explicitly rather than relying on learners to discover ...
K. Rastle +3 more
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An efficient approach to fostering students’ scientific inquiry (SI) competencies (e.g., planning investigations) is to combine student engagement in inquiry activities with explicit instruction that addresses corresponding concepts (e.g., the control-of-
Verena Petermann, Andreas Vorholzer
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PENERAPAN MODEL EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION PADA PEMBELAJARAN SENI TARI UNTUK MENINGKATKAN MINAT BELAJAR SISWA. [PDF]
Judul penelitian ini adalah Penerapan Model Explicit Instruction Pada Pembelajaran Seni Tari Untuk Meningkatkan Minat Belajar Siswa (Studi Eksperimen Pada Siswa Kelas VIII-F SMP Negeri 3 Lembang).
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