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Exploring the role of strategy instruction on learners? ability to write authentic email requests to faculty
Usó-Juan, Esther Sage (2022-01-07)This study used a pre-test post-test research design to investigate the role of explicit strategy instruction on Spanish English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ ability to write authentic email requests to faculty. ... -
Fostering learners’ (meta)pragmatic awareness through film analysis
Usó-Juan, Esther; Martínez-Flor, Alicia Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2021)Film-based dialogues have been praised in the current work on pragmatics as a potentially useful source that can enhance learners’ (meta)pragmatic awareness of the pragmatic phenomena in actual communicative events. Following ... -
Learning how to mitigate requests throught an explicit pragmatics-based method
Martínez-Flor, Alicia; Usó-Juan, Esther Servicio de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo (2008)It is widely agreed that the goal of language teaching is to develop learners’ communicative competence (Usó-Juan and Martínez-Flor, 2006). Consequently, instructional practices should focus not just on the knowledge ... -
Reading printed versus online texts: a study of EFL learners’ strategic reading behavior
Usó-Juan, Esther; Ruiz-Madrid, Noelia Universidad de Murcia (2009)With the development of the WWW and Internet, hyperreading has become an issue for discussion in the educational field and more specifically in the field of English as a second or foreign language. Yet, very little is known ... -
Reorienting the assessment of the conventional expressions of complaining and apologizing: From single-response to interactive DCTs
Usó-Juan, Esther; Martínez-Flor, Alicia Tabaran Institute of Higher Education (2014-03-01)The importance of assessing pragmatics in the classroom has been recognized as a difficult and complex task since there are a lot of contextual factors that influence an appropriate use of the language. Therefore, it is ... -
Research methodologies in pragmatics : eliciting refusals to requests
Martínez-Flor, Alicia; Usó-Juan, Esther Universidad de Sevilla (2011)The speech act of refusing, as a dispreferred response, is complex to perform and it usually involves indirect strategies as well as mitigating devices to avoid risking the initiator’s positive face. The appropriate choice ... -
Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence through the Four Skills
Usó-Juan, Esther; Martínez-Flor, Alicia Universidad de Alicante (2008)Nowadays, the most accepted instructional framework in second or foreign language (L2) programs is Communicative Language Teaching, whose main goal is to increase learners’ communicative competence. This theoretical ... -
Teaching learners to appropriately mitigate requests
Martínez-Flor, Alicia; Usó-Juan, Esther Oxford University Press (2008)It is commonly recognized that, for lecturers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in a university setting, the goal of their teaching is to develop learners' ability to communicate appropriately in this language. This ... -
Using audiovisual material to teach refusals from a discoursive perspective: a research-based proposal
Usó-Juan, Esther; Martínez-Flor, Alicia Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2022-12-16)Refusals are complex face-threatening speech acts whose appropriate performance requires not only lengthy sequences of negotiation and cooperative achievements, but also face-saving strategies to accommodate the disruptive ...