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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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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Pragmatic Competence and Willingness to Communicate Among L2 Learners of Chinese
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Research in second language (L2) pragmatics has paid increasing attention to learners’ individual differences, but few studies have examined the relationship between learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in L2 and their pragmatic competence. To this
Xiaoxuan Lv, Wei Ren, Lin Li
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آداب الكوفة, 2023 Pragmatic awareness is of great impact on L2 teaching and learning; however, it is generally neglected in most EFL studies in L2 critical reading. Addressing this concern, the study has attempted to investigate Iraqi EFL teachers' perception of the role
Musaab Al-Khazaali
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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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SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF THE ELIMINATED LACUNAE
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2021 Elimination of lacunae is associated with the need to convey semantic content that has not found a single-word expression in the language. But elimination also turns out to be necessary for pragmatic reasons.
Irina V. Belyaeva, Oksana M. Akay
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Content Analysis of Iranian High School English Textbooks in terms of Politeness Markers, Speech Acts, and Language Functions [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2020 Considering the indispensable role pragmatic knowledge plays in not only comprehending L2 materials, but also in making and maintaining proper communication, and the fact that Iranian EFL learners are primarily exposed to the target language through ...
Reza Bagheri Nevisi, Alireza Moghadasi
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TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE ROLE OF PRAGMATICS IN THE EFL CLASSROOM [PDF]
Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2018 The need to prepare foreign language learners for successful cross-cultural communication increases the importance of developing their pragmatic competence.
Irina Ivanova
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The barefoot shoemaker's son: examining EFL teachers' pragmatic competence in a Saudi context [PDF]
Saudi Journal of Language Studies, 2022 Purpose – English instructors' pragmatic competence (PC) is an aspect of the overall communicative competence forming the basis of language instructors' knowledge.
Abdullah Ahmed Zughaibi
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Raising pragmatic awareness: Effect of contrastive discourse markers on iBT speaking module [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2012 Although discourse markers lend themselves widely to spoken as well as written discourse, unfortunately there is not any common consensus on categorization, classification, status and other related issues.
Mansoor Fahim +2 more
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