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Mitigating e-mail requests in teenagers’ first and second language academic cyber-consultation
(De Gruyter, 2013)
The study analyses teenagers’ e-mail requests during academic cyber-consultation, exploring how the performance of request modifiers is influenced by participants’ perceptions of the degree of imposition of the speech act ...
Teachability and bilingualism effects on third language learners' pragmatic knowledge
(Walter de Gruyter, 2012)
The present study focuses on the benefits that teaching the speech act of refusal from a discourse perspective can have on third language learners’ pragmatic knowledge. Additionally, it also explores whether receptive and ...
Pragmatic Development During Study Abroad: An Analysis of Spanish Teenagers’ Request Strategies in English Emails
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Previous research has shown that adolescent second language learners benefit from pragmatic instruction during study abroad (Alcón-Soler, 2015). As a follow-up investigation, the present study looked at late adolescent ...
La importancia de la evaluación docente
(Wolters Kluwer, 2017)
Cuando hablamos de evaluación de la docencia debemos tener presente que, más allá de la importancia y la actualidad, abordamos un asunto de indudable complejidad. En los últimos diez años, y como respuesta a las directrices ...
Development of discourse-pragmatic markers in a multilingual classroom: A mixed method research approach
(Elsevier, 2018)
Research has shown that being multilingual is a valuable asset for learning pragmatics.
By adopting a multilingual turn perspective, this study investigates patterns of
pragmatic development in the multilingual classroom ...
Learning Pragmatic Routines during Study Abroad: A Focus on Proficiency and Type of Routine
(AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos), 2017)
The present study explores pragmatic learning during study abroad (SA) programs, focusing
on gains in learner recognition and production of pragmatic routines, and considers whether
proficiency and type of routine play ...
Pragmatic variation in British and International English language users' e-mail communication: a focus on requests
(Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, AESLAJohn Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013)
The present study analyses the use of request strategies and
mitigation devices during academic cyber-consultation. More specifically, it explores
whether the degree of directness and mitigation in academic virtual ...
Translation and language learning: AlfraCovalt as a tool for raising learners' pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic awareness of the speech act of requesting
(Universidade de Brasília, 2009)
Interlanguage pragmatic research has shown that speech act categories and their realisation strategies are found across languages. However, they do not apply to all languages in the same way. Leech (1983) and Thomas (1983) ...
Pragmatic gains in the study abroad context: Learners' experiences and recognition of pragmatic routines
(Elsevier, 2018-10)
The present study investigates second language (L2) learners' pragmatic development during study abroad (SA) programs by focusing on the recognition of pragmatic routines, and how sociocultural adaptation and intensity of ...