The implementation of ICT to teach pragmatics in spanish secondary schools: a focus on apologies

Abstract

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 of technology in education has taken a huge importance for the design of this project. The teaching proposal presented in this paper has been created for 15-16 years old Spanish students. Students’ L2 is English. This teaching proposal advocates for teaching students how to apologize by using technological devices. A tool called Edmodo is used to present the different activities. In this virtual classroom, students will find the instructions to follow the lessons. The activities chosen are about language awareness, language recognition and language production. The activities are motivational and engage students with language and, in this case, with learning apologies. Finally, in the present study, certain limitations have also been taken into account for future research.