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Fostering EF/SL learners’ meta-pragmatic awareness of complaints and their interactive effects [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage Awareness, 2015
This paper suggests a series of steps for teaching complaint behaviour in English. The production of complaints requires a meta-pragmatic awareness of their interactive value and functions, their different types and realisations, pragmalinguistic ...
Manuel Padilla Cruz
exaly   +2 more sources

Pragmatic Awareness in Intercultural Language Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter examines theoretical understandings and research findings related to the notion of pragmatic awareness within the field of intercultural language learning, highlighting important points of connection with the field of intercultural ...
McConachy, Troy
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Raising Pragmatic Awareness in the EFL Classroom [PDF]

open access: yesAsphodel, 2018
application/pdfAN00000289-20180726-47For EFL learners, it is crucial to acquire pragmatic competence to communicate smoothly in the target language. However, teachers recognize that teaching prangmatics in the second language classrooms is no easy matter.
ABE, Hitomi   +3 more
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Pragmatic Awareness in Children

1984
Pragmatic awareness is concerned with the awareness or knowledge one has about the relationships that obtain within the linguistic system itself (e.g., across different sentences) and with the relationships that obtain between the linguistic system and the context in which the language is embedded (e.g., speaker’s ability to match his utterance to suit
Chris Pratt, Andrew R. Nesdale
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Pragmatic awareness activities

Language Awareness, 1994
Abstract This paper advocates a language awareness approach which aims at helping learners of an L2 to develop awareness of how the target language is typically used to achieve communication. It starts by considering different interpretations of the objectives and procedures of language awareness lessons and then specifies the particular principles and
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Developing pragmatic awareness: closing the conversation

ELT Journal, 1991
Abstract Many commercially available English-language materials do not provide natural, or even pragmatically appropriate, conversational models for learners. This paper argues for increasing the role of pragmastics in English-language instruction.
D. W. Reynolds   +4 more
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The Reality Gap: Pragmatic Boundaries of Context Awareness

2001
Recent developments in wireless communication and mobile computing have prompted a new vision of the world in which we live. Augmented reality has been proposed as the integration of physical and digital space. This approach is built upon the idea that it is possible to blur the distinctions that currently exist betweencomputers and of artefacts ...
Yun-Maw Cheng, Chris Johnson
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Enhancing multilingual young students’ pragmatic awareness through pedagogical translanguaging

open access: yesInternational Journal of Multilingualism
Given the limited number of studies investigating pragmatics and multilingualism in primary education, the present study analyses the influence of multilingual instruction, referring to pedagogical translanguaging, on multilingual young learners ...
Gema Gayete, Laura Portolés Falomir
exaly   +2 more sources

Increasing Pragmatic Awareness in the L2 Classroom

2013
Abstract The importance of the pragmatic competence that should be acquired by students in higher education and the role of pragmatic awareness in L2 teaching are the theoretical standpoints of this chapter. The main argument of this research is that pragmatic competence should be trained in L2 teaching.
María Luisa Carrió Pastor   +1 more
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Improving EFL learners' pragmatic awareness

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2003
This paper overviews the ways in which EFL learners' pragmatic awareness can be developed in language classrooms through focused instruction and practice. It argues that effective communication requires awareness of the conventions governing language use and attention to the characteristics of the context and the interlocutors, besides linguistic ...
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