Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure in English Language Classrooms: Development of a Multi-Dimensional Model Based on EFL Teachers’ and Learners’ Perceptions [PDF]
Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2022 The present study aimed at investigating the perceptions of English language teachers and learners towards cross-cultural pragmatic failure in Iranian EFL contexts.
Zahra Savadkouhi, Mahnaz Mostafaei Alaei
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Effect of Pragmatic Instruction on Sustainable Development of Pragmatic Awareness
Journal of Studies in Education, 2014 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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Unified Pragmatic Models for Generating and Following Instructions [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of
the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language
Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), 2018 We show that explicit pragmatic inference aids in correctly generating and following natural language instructions for complex, sequential tasks. Our pragmatics-enabled models reason about why speakers produce certain instructions, and about how listeners will react upon hearing them.
Daniel Fried +2 more
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The effects of pragmatic instruction on EFL learners’ pragmatic competence [PDF]
, 2021 La competencia pragmática se considera uno de los elementos más importantes al aprender un nuevo idioma. En los últimos años, investigadores de todo el mundo han puesto su atención en cómo el lenguaje se usa en contexto.
Sidel Ramón, Jorge Javier +1 more
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Pragmatic Competence: A Meta-Analytic Account of Current Issues and Research into Its Acquisition and Instruction [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2007 Despite being a component of communicative competence, pragmatic competence has only recently become the focus of attention. This paper addresses the historical evolution and the models of pragmatic competence.
zia tajeddin
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Pragmatic disorders and their social impact [PDF]
, 2011 Pragmatic disorders in children and adults have been the focus of clinical investigations for approximately 40 years. In that time, clinicians and researchers have established a diverse range of pragmatic phenomena that are disrupted in these disorders ...
Louise Cummings, Cummings, L
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Examining the Effects of Long-Term Study Abroad on the Listenership of Japanese EFL University Students [PDF]
International Journal of TESOL Studies, 2021 The purpose of this study is to measure the effect of study abroad on one aspect of learners' pragmatic competence, listenership. A total of 8 Japanese university students participated in this study (4 females and 4 males).
Pino Cutrone
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Pragmatic aspects of task performance: The case of argumentation. [PDF]
, 2001 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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Pedagogy on teaching negotiation of speech acts: Accepting invitations and offers in L2 Chinese [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2018 Pragmatic competence has long been considered an important aspect of second language learners’ language ability, yet pragmatic instruction is rarely found in Chinese as a foreign or second language setting.
Yufen Chang, Yunwen Su
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Explicit Instruction of Pragmatic Features: Its Impact on EFL Learners’ Knowledge of Hedging Devices in Academic Writing [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2017 Hedging academic claims has been recognized as one of integral pragmatic features of academic writing in which most EFL academic writers seem to face substantial problems.
Abdullah Sarani +1 more
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