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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Pragmatic competence"”.
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Pragmatic Competence and Transferability: Native and Non-Native Speakers of Portuguese
… view of the relevance of ""native speaker competence"" in second language acquisition literature. The study points out the implications of the coexistence of two or more language systems in a speaker's mind and their influence on his/her sociocultural values and sociopragmatic decisions …
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Re-envisioning assessment of interlanguage pragmatic competence through computer-mediated communicative tasks
Assessment of second language (L2) pragmatic knowledge is still a new and understudied area of research. Some researchers (Hudson, Detmer, & Brown, 1992, 1995; Roever, 2006, Walters, 2007) have played an important role in advancing the field, but their theories have followed speech act framework …
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Pragmatic competence in the target language : a study of Iranian learners of English
… growing body of research on the importance of pragmatic competence in the target language as well the introduction of teaching methodologies about the inclusion of pragmatics in language classrooms in last two decades, there are a number of uncertainties which are associated with the concept of …
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The Development of Pragmatic Competence and Perception of Requests by American Learners of the Russian Language
… <p>On the background of this analysis, the pragmatic development of the target language of a group of English-speaking learners of Russian enrolled in a summer immersion program is analyzed. Oral data from 28 NNSs were collected at the beginning and end of the immersion programs. A Discourse …
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An Application of Conversation Analysis to the Development of a Test of Second -Language Pragmatic Competence
… fashion to the assessment of second-language pragmatics (SLP), though low reliabilities gathered from the pool of upper-theta examinees appeared to make psychometrically-driven SLPT problematic; therefore, a hermeneutic approach to reliability and validity is recommended for SLPT; the …
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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
… 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 institute in a western state of the U.S. …
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The Speech Act of Complaint in English and in Russian and its Emergence in the Pragmatic Competence of Adult American Learners of Russian
… a framework of cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics, the dissertation identifies some of the key linguistic and cultural differences which can hamper effective communication between Americans and Russians and between L2 learners and RSs in complaint situations.</p> <p>The data were …
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Individual Network of Linguistic Practice (INoLP): A Social Network Approach to International Students' Pragmatic Development
… 2002; Xie & Liu, 2021), while their impact on L2 pragmatic competence remains underexplored. Existing SA studies have adopted various approaches to conceptualise and measure social interaction, with social network analysis emerging as a prominent lens. This method describes individuals’ social …
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Bringing Pragmatics into the ESL Classroom
… with a growing understanding of the key role pragmatic competence plays in second language development, researchers have also investigated the benefits of direct instruction in helping language learners become aware of the pragmatic conditions governing the uses of grammatical structures. This …
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Interlanguage Pragmatics: Invitation Responses by Advanced Chinese Learners of English
… a second language requires not only linguistic competence but also pragmatic competence of the L2 community. Though previous studies have shown dissimilarities in invitational conversations and general refusal strategies (c.f. strategies used to reject an invitation) in Chinese and American …
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Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals
… language grammars has shown variability in L1 competence, despite high proficiency in both languages. While sources of variation have been debated, little attention has been given to the role of language dominance. This thesis uses a self-paced listening task to explicitly investigate the roles …
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The syntax-pragmatics interface in L2 : aspects of information structure teaching and learning in a Saudi ESL context
… strengthens the assumption that grammatical competence and pragmatic competence do not necessarily co-develop. Although some factors such as first language (L1) influence, typological universals and markedness can affect use of L2 pragmalinguistic structures (information structure), this …
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Practical Pragmatics: A Workshop to Learn Strategies for Teaching Pragmatic Awareness to Adult English Language Leaners
… and textbook teaching materials for developing pragmatic awareness in ESL (English as a second language) and EFL (English as a foreign language) classrooms has led to a gap in the development of students’ communicative competence in English as a second or foreign language. The purpose of this …
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The pragmatics of palavering in Kikoongo
… resolving disputes (Frake 1979) contributes to Pragmatics as defined by Levinson (1983) and Leech (1983). This study provides a body of information that supports the new discipline as an adequate means for demonstrating that any language is an entity that is divisible into units of a higher …
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The Pragmatics of Apology Speech Act Behaviour in Iraqi Arabic and English
… is significant and necessary for the field of pragmatics and politeness theories. It represents a new cultural study that has not been previously examined. From pragmatic and politeness perspectives, all previous research has focused on the realization of apologies rather than how they are …
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Assessing pragmatic language in children through a brief assessment of idiom comprehension: a pilot study
The purpose of this study was to assess pragmatic language in children within a clinical population (i.e., children with ASD and ADHD) and nonclinical population (i.e., typically developing children) by using a newly formed Test of Idioms. The total number of participants who participated in the …
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Evaluating the explicit pragmatic instruction of requests and apologies in a study abroad setting : the case of ESL Chinese learners at a UK Higher Education institution
… a study abroad context, for improving the spoken pragmatic competence of Chinese English as a Second Language (ESL) learners in the UK. The intervention in this study specifically focused on the speech acts of requests and apologies, and the effects of differentiated training materials, i.e., …
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How to Ask for a Favor: An Exploration of Speech Act Pragmatics in Heritage Russian
… in this direction. The study investigates the pragmatic competence of adult Heritage Russian (HR) speakers dominant in American English by focusing on their ability to comprehend and produce requests for favor that appeal primarily to the addressee's good will.</p> <p>The data were collected …
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Gender based variation in employing suggestion strategies by Iraqi EFL learners
As the speech act of suggestion pragmatically conveys the intention behind its utterance rather than its mere structure, suggestions are crucial to EFL learners to master to communicate their ideas. Since the inception of the speech act theory, scholars have reported incomplete or impolite use of …
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