Listar por tema "pragmatics"
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Supplementing ELT textbooks with game-based pragmatics instruction: A proposal for the CSE classroom in times of COVID-19
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-12)Pragmatics has been usually depicted as the Cinderella of language and communication (Sintonen, 1989). Yet, globalisation and the transformation of English in the main lingua franca (ELF) has made the teaching of ... -
Teaching Pragmatics from a Task-Based Approach: A Focus on Requests in Email Communication
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-22)In English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching pragmatics is of utmost importance due to the scarcity of opportunities to interact in English out of school. In addition, within the communicative approach, Task-Based ... -
Teaching Requests: A Contrast between Comprehension-Based and Production-Based Approaches
Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-19)The purpose of this research is to suggest how to teach pragmatics to EFL learners, specifically requests, following two approaches: comprehension-based and production-based approaches. The intention of this study is to ... -
El teatre a les aules: teoria i pràctica del llenguatge oral
Universitat Jaume I (2014)En aquest treball veurem com el text teatral ens dóna la possibilitat d’abordar uns objectius didàctics molt concrets: l’expressió oral catalana a l’assignatura de Valencià: llengua i literatura. A més, introduirem ... -
Technology and task-based language teaching (TBLT): Exploring pragmatics
The University of the West Indies (2018-08)This paper focuses on the teaching of pragmatics in English as a Foreign Language classroom and how the traditional way of teaching languages can be challenged. It also aims to highlight the importance of incorporating ... -
The implementation of ICT to teach pragmatics in spanish secondary schools: a focus on apologies
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-03)This paper is about teaching pragmatics challenging the traditional methods used in education. The need to teach speech acts, specifically apologies, has developed the creation of a teaching proposal. The implementation ... -
The use and function of "please" in learners' oral requestive behaviour : a pragmatic analysis
Universidad de La Rioja (2009)The aim of this paper is to focus on “please” as one of the most frequent modifiers used to mitigate the impositive speech act of requesting. However, apart from this main function, scant attention has been paid to the ... -
Validation of PleaseApp: a digital tool for the assessment of receptive pragmatic abilities in children with neurodevelopmental disorders
Frontiers Media (2024)Background: Pragmatic skills allow children to use language for social purposes, that is, to communicate and interact with people. Most children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) face pragmatic difficulties ... -
Variación y gramática pedagógica: sintaxis, pragmática y discurso
Universidad de Salamanca (2021-12-01)El trabajo expone las aportaciones del variacionismo a la didáctica de la lengua (L1). En el contexto del enfoque comunicativo, el capítulo revisa los principios del concepto operativo de variación, desde ... -
Well I never!: formulaic language as a pragmatic resource in child entertainment media
Springer (2014)This study provides qualitative data on the potential for exposure to Situation-Bound Utterances (SBUs) in English language children's cartoons. The SBUs are described according to their pragmatic context, and possibilities ... -
Where next for pragmatics and mind reading? A situation-based view (Response to Kissine)
Linguistic Society of America (2021)Our commentary is mainly concerned with Kissine's first argument in his 2021 target article: that mind reading is not necessarily needed for pragmatics. We fully agree with Kissine, and we present (i) additional recent ...