• openAccess   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 ...
    • openAccess   Refusal strategies : a proposal from a sociopragmatic approach 

      Salazar-Campillo, Patricia; Safont, Pilar; Codina-Espurz, Victòria Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (2009)
      The aim of this paper is to present an open typology of refusal strategies which may be employed in the analysis of refusal performance from a discourse approach. We will first review previous research carried out on ...
    • openAccess   The Interactive Effects of Pragmatic-Eliciting Tasks and Pragmatic Instruction 

      Martínez-Flor, Alicia; Fukuya, Yoshinori J. American Council on the teaching of foreign languages (2008)
      The effects of data-gathering methods on pragmatic data have been well documented, yet an inquiry into the interactive effects of assessment tasks with pragmatic instruction has received scant attention. This study ...