Multilingual pragmatic awareness in collaborative writing [PDF]
Las investigaciones llevadas a cabo en torno a la conciencia pragmática de los estudiantes de lenguas se han centrado principalmente en la lengua meta. Tal y como exponen algunos académicos, se debería también adoptar una perspectiva multilingüe en el análisis de la conciencia pragmática.
Ignacio Martinez-Buffa, Pilar Safont
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Interlanguage refusals : a cross-sectional study of Thai EFL learners' refusals in English [PDF]
Using the speech act of refusals and formulaic language as focuses of analysis, this thesis aims to explore whether or not grammatical proficiency and development is distinct from pragmatic proficiency.
Kasemsin, Chirasiri
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Pragmatic aspects of task performance: The case of argumentation. [PDF]
The study reported in this paper investigated the pragmatic aspects of task-performance in a series of argumentation tasks that 24 Hungarian learners of English performed over a period of two years.
Németh, Nóra, Kormos, Judit
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SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF THE ELIMINATED LACUNAE
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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The barefoot shoemaker's son: examining EFL teachers' pragmatic competence in a Saudi context [PDF]
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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L2 pragmatics as ‘intercultural pragmatics’: Probing sociopragmatic aspects of pragmatic awareness [PDF]
One of the important ‘current issues in intercultural pragmatics’ is how conceptual, theoretical, and empirical developments in this field can be used to help reconstitute the teaching and learning of second languages as an intercultural endeavor. The field of intercultural pragmatics raises important questions and presents challenges to prevailing ...
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TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE ROLE OF PRAGMATICS IN THE EFL CLASSROOM [PDF]
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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Raising pragmatic awareness: Effect of contrastive discourse markers on iBT speaking module [PDF]
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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Effect of Pragmatic Instruction on Sustainable Development of Pragmatic Awareness
Effective cross-cultural communication is supposed to require awareness of target language pragmatic features. However, inadequate attention is paid to the development of pragmatic awareness in foreign language classrooms. To examine the actual effect of pragmatic instruction on the development and sustainability of pragmatic awareness in foreign ...
Vahid Rafieyan +2 more
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Pragmatic aspects of communication and language comprehension in groups of children differentiated by teacher ratings of inattention and hyperactivity. [PDF]
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience pragmatic language deficits, but it is not known whether these difficulties are primarily associated with high levels of inattention, hyperactivity, or both.
Cain, Kate, Bignell, Simon
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