• openAccess   Functional Approach to Multiliteracy 

      Silvestre-López, Antonio-José; Navarro Coy, Marta Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (2008)
      This paper presents a cybertask designed to be performed by students of journalism within the subject “English for Journalists”. As a departure point, students were provided with a website which gives access to all the ...
    • openAccess   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 ...
    • 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 ...