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Are the Speech Acts of EFL Learners Really Direct? The Case of Requests in the Omani EFL Context

SAGE Open, 2019
The study focuses on the strategies English as a foreign language (EFL) learners choose to take on in requests without evaluating them against the norm of a native speaker, as the concept of native speaker is ideologically problematic in the time of ...
Iryna Lenchuk, Amer Ahmed
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The Impact of Computerized Dynamic Assessment on Iranian EFL Learners' Interlanguage Pragmatic Development [PDF]

Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2019
The present study reports the results of a dissertation aimed at consolidating assessment and instruction of L2 pragmatics comprehension by drawing on an interventionist computerized dynamic assessment (C-DA) through which the test was embodied by ...
Ali Zangoei, Gholamreza Zareian, Seyyed Mohammad Reza َAdel, Seyed Mohammad Reza Amirian   +3 more
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A comparison of the effects of AI‐based chatbots and peer interactions on speaking anxiety among EFL learners

Future in Educational Research, Volume 3, Issue 2, Page 224-238, June 2025.
Abstract Although speaking anxiety plays a significant role in English as a foreign language (EFL) learning, research indicates that English speaking anxiety stands out as a crucial problem that EFL learners experience. Integrating technology into the EFL contexts may help learners significantly, and artificial intelligence‐based (AI‐based) chatbots ...
Meltem Ballıdağ, Selami Aydın
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Relevance Theory and Intercultural Communication Problems [PDF]

, 2017
This editorial to the special issue of RiL dedicated to relevance theory and problems of intercultural communication addresses the general requirements that a theory of communication must meet to be applicable to the analysis of intercultural ...
Agnieszka Piskorska, Brown, Brown, Escandell, Escandell, Escandell, Escandell, Escandell, Escandell, Fukada, Fukada, Goffman, Goffman, Goldsmith, Goldsmith, Grice, Grice, Grice, Grice, Ide, Ide, Jary, Jary, Keenan Ochs, Keenan Ochs, Matsumoto, Matsumoto, Sperber, Sperber, Trosborg, Trosborg, Van, Van, Van, Van, Van, Van, Wilson, Wilson   +38 more
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A research agenda for contrastive analysis of Japanese and Kazakh: The case of grammar and pragmatics

Әл-Фараби Атындағы Қазақ Ұлттық Университеті хабаршы шығыстану сериясы, 2016
This paper aims at conducting studies on contrastive linguistics of Japanese and Kazakh and interlanguage studies of Kazakh learners’ Japanese.  The paper indicates research themes of contrastive analysis of the languages from the view point of grammar (
Т Ниномия, А Бекебасова   +1 more
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CRITERIA USED BY PROFICIENT VS. LESS PROFICIENT EFL TEACHERS IN PRAGMATIC ASSESSMENT: THE CASE OF REQUEST SPEECH ACT

English Review: Journal of English Education, 2018
The issue of EFL teachers’ rating criteria and patterns in Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) assessment is new and needs rigorous analysis. The purpose of this study was to reveal important variables such as raters’ criteria and rating patterns by analyzing
Misagh Hosseini, Ehsan Rezvani
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The Impact of Individual Differences on the Interlanguage Pragmatics of Iranian EFL learners in Institutional Discourse [PDF]

Issues in Language Teaching, 2015
This study investigated the impact of individual differences like language proficiency, gender and age on the Iranian EFL learners interlanguage pragmatics in institutional discourse especially, their capacity to recognize and to rate pragmatic and ...
Ashraf Haji Maibodi, Ali Mohammad Fazilatfar   +1 more
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From Boundary Objects to Boundary Infrastructure: A Process Study of Collaboration between Big Science and Big Business

Journal of Management Studies, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 1644-1679, June 2025.
Abstract The development of a novel boundary infrastructure for large‐scale interorganizational collaboration presents a challenge that is ill‐understood: how can individual boundary objects, which do not suffice for large‐scale collaboration and might even engender conflict, be developed into a coherent boundary infrastructure that facilitates the ...
Jochem T. Hummel, Hans Berends, Philipp Tuertscher   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Interactive Effects of Pragmatic-Eliciting Tasks and Pragmatic Instruction [PDF]

, 2008
The effects of data-gathering methods on pragmatic data have been well documented, yet an inquiry into the interactive effects of assessment tasks with pragmatic instruction has received scant attention. This study investigated the interaction between
Fukuya, Yoshinori J., Martínez-Flor, Alicia   +1 more
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Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 344-364, Summer 2025.
Abstract Lexical proficiency in a second language (L2) has long been effectively assessed through the measurement of various lexical indices, or textual characteristics that act as observable indicators of such conceptual categories as lexical richness, diversity, sophistication, and fluency.
Olesya Kisselev, Mihail Kopotev, Anton Vakhranev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source