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Teaching Apology Formulas at the Discourse Level: Are Instructional Effects Maintained Over Time?
(UNED, 2016)
This study explores the effects of teaching apologies at a discourse
level on a group of Spanish learners of English as a foreign language
both in the short and in the long-term. It adopts a one-group pre-, post and ...
Reorienting the assessment of the conventional expressions of complaining and apologizing: From single-response to interactive DCTs
(Tabaran Institute of Higher Education, 2014-03-01)
The importance of assessing pragmatics in the classroom has been recognized as a difficult and complex task since there are a lot of contextual factors that influence an appropriate use of the language. Therefore, it is ...
Conversational Style and Early Academic Language Skills in CLIL and Non-CLIL Settings: A Multilingual Sociopragmatic Perspective
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2019)
As academic language skills develop, young learners are able to rise to the challenge of increasingly complex
communication in increasingly formal settings (Snow, 2014; Uccelli et al., 2015). Studies suggest that ...
Teachers’ language use and attitudes towards multilingual education in primary education
(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019)
The exclusive use of the target language in the classroom has dominated language teaching in the past.
However, the mixing of languages, often referred as translanguaging is frequently observed in multilingual
classrooms. ...
Investigating the Application of Communicative Language Teaching Principles in Primary-Education: A Comparison of CLIL and FL Classrooms
(The Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2019-01-09)
It is widely accepted that the learning of a new language, among other advantages, promotes respect and interest of the students towards other cultures and languages. The question is how learning languages can be promoted ...
English language learners’ spoken interaction: What a multimodal perspective reveals about pragmatic competence
(Elsevier, 2018)
Broadly speaking, pragmatic competence can be defined as the ability to communicate appropriately in a social context. Learning how to use pragmatic features adequately in a particular setting is paramount for language ...