• 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   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 ...
    • 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 ...