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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"L2 Pragmatics"”.
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Gaining Pragmatic Competence in English as a Second and a Foreign Language: The Effects of the Learning Environment and Overall L2 Proficiency
… of the learning environment and overall L2 proficiency on the development of pragmatic competence, with reference to grammatical competence. Participants were three groups of English language learners: 120 international students who speak English as a second language from a research …
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Online sarcasm and its perception by second language learners : the case of Iraqi EFL learners in Iraq and the UK
Although many studies have been written within L2 pragmatics, very few have dealt with L2 irony and sarcasm. The main purpose of this study is to investigate how EFL learners recognize written British English sarcasm. For this purpose, an L2 pragmatics study was designed and applied to two groups …
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The effectiveness of online pragmatics instruction with video clips for learners of Arabic
… been an upsurge of interest in second language (L2) pragmatics instruction. This increase in attention comes as a result of interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) studies’ consistent reports that even when L2 learners have an advanced proficiency level in the target language and a considerable length of …
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The Differential Effects of Explicit and Implicit Instruction: Focusing on the L2 Acquisition of Epistemic Stance by Japanese EFL Learners.
… of helping learners with difficult aspects of L2 pragmatics. However, the partial loss of gains in the long-term suggested that explicit instruction needs reinforcement through practice and/or further input. The degree of difference between learners' use of epistemic stance in writing and …
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Spanish pragmatic markers' usage patterns in second language and heritage speakers
… in heritage speakers and second language (L2) learners of Spanish at different proficiency levels (advanced vs. low-intermediate) by comparing their performances in a series of oral tasks. The investigation is guided by two main goals: 1) to analyze whether these groups display the same …