Metapragmatic Awareness in Melbourne Greek: Addressee-Oriented Indicators and the T/V Distinction
LanguagesThe role of metapragmatics in maintaining interactional coherence and achieving intersubjectivity has been variously underscored in the last three decades.
Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
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Investigating Preschool Children’s Metapragmatic Awareness Development Through Force-Dynamics Model
SAGE OpenThis study investigates the development of metapragmatic awareness in preschool children through the lens of Talmy’s Force-Dynamics Model. Using conversation data from 60 Mandarin-speaking children aged 4 to 6, obtained from the International Child ...
Lulu Cheng, Haoran Mao, Xiaomeng Xue
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The Effect of Metapragmatic Awareness, Interactive Translation, and Discussion through Video-Enhanced Input on EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Implicature [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2020 It is substantiated that particular features of pragmatics are teachable, and instruction is both necessary and effective. Determining what kind of intervention is most effectual for facilitating learners’ pragmatic development has been a central issue ...
Ali Derakhshan, Zohreh. R Eslami
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The Effect of Explicit Pragmatic Instruction on EFL Students' Production of Speech Acts: Pragmalinguistic vs. Sociopragmatic Errors in Focus [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2023 L2 learners' pragmatic development could be manifested by their proper speech act production. Due to the existing differences among languages, errors in speech act realization are inevitable.
Alyaa Alkawaz +3 more
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Fostering learners’ (meta)pragmatic awareness through film analysis
Language Value, 2021 Film-based dialogues have been praised in the current work on pragmatics as a potentially useful source that can enhance learners’ (meta)pragmatic awareness of the pragmatic phenomena in actual communicative events. Following this view, this paper first
Esther Usó-Juan, Alicia Martínez-Flor
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Scientific concepts as meaning-making resources for young EFL learners in the learning of pragmatics
Intercultural Communication Education, 2021 This article reports on a study investigating the role of scientific concepts in the metapragmatic awareness of Norwegian primary EFL learners’ following a four-week instructional intervention on requesting informed by sociocultural theory (Vygotsky ...
Anders Myrset
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Unpacking the Nexus between Teachers' Awareness of Pragmatics Instruction and Their Classroom Practices [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2020 Developing learners' pragmatic competence is claimed to be influenced by teachers' awareness of pragmatic instruction. However, this awareness and the way teachers teach pragmatics in their classrooms have been rarely explored.
Zia Tajeddin, Mehdi Khodaparast
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Developing Pragmatic Awareness of Requests in the EFL Classroom: A Focus on Instructional Effects [PDF]
Research in English Language Pedagogy, 2023 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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More than ‘thanks’: Responding to compliments in a second language
e-Kafkas Eğitim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 This study aims at investigating the use of macro and micro strategies used to respond to compliments in a second language. For this aim, advanced level Turkish learners of English as a foreign language were given a written discourse completion task (24 ...
Vasfiye Geckin
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EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2022 This volume presents a theoretical and practical approach to the teaching of pragmatics in primary and secondary educational contexts. Targeting first language (L1), second language (L2), and foreign language (FL) teachers, the volume starts by ...
Sara Gesuato
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