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Integrating the Speech Act of Refusals in the Instructed Setting
(Universidad de Vigo, 2012)
The purpose of this paper is to provide aninstructional approach for the integration of a particularpragmatic aspect, specifically, the speech act of refusals.To do that, the paper begins with a description of ...
Fostering Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Foreign Language Classroom: Pedagogical Implications
(University of Sebha, 2014)
The development of learners' communicative competence has been
regarded as the major goal of foreign and second language teaching. Several
authors have advanced various communicative models in order to better
explain ...
Teaching refusal strategies in the foreign language classroom: a focus on inductive-deductive treatments
(Universidad de La Rioja, 2013)
The present paper attempts to present a pedagogical model for the integration of pragmatic competence in the foreign language classroom by following an inductive-deductive approach. For the sake of the current article, the ...
A comparative corpus-based study on the use of English Academic Verbs (EAVs) in linguistics research articles on the part of native and non-native English scholars
(2021)
Lexical verbs are crucial in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) due to their undeniable contribution to major EAP functions such as discussing,
hypothesising, comparing, or reviewing literature. The present paper intends ...
Academic writing and publishing: A focus on Spanish English-linguistics scholars’ self-reported attitudes, practices and perceptions as regards academic life and the creation and publication of their research articles
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021-07-22)
Among the challenges facing scholars at university today, producing
quantity and quality publications with the highest possible impact is
probably perceived by most of them as the greatest. This pressure places
scholars ...
Digital multimodal PechaKucha presentations in ESP: insights from students’ learning experiences
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2023-10-17)
Advances in digital and audiovisual communication have contributed to
the remediation and emergence of genres (Luzón and Pérez-Llantada 2022, giving
rise to new discourse practices. Against this backdrop, it becomes ...
The influence of social distance and power in email politeness in an academic context
(Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas (AJL), 2021)
This study examined the influence of
social and power distance on students’ preferences
of openings and closings and requestive strategies
used when sending an email in an academic
context. Students were more ...
Modal density in structuring segments containing organizational metadiscourse versus content sequences
(ESP Today, 2022-01-18)
Organizational metadiscourse in lectures helps to facilitate comprehension and is
frequently found in structuring segments placed in between content sequences. In
contrast, content sequences are those parts of the discourse ...
Teaching the pragmatics of English as an international language: A focus on pragmatic markers
(Sage, 2021-12-29)
The current era of globalization and emergence of English as an international language (EIL) has brought about new opportunities for L2 pragmatic learning and teaching. The common view of pragmatic learning as an approximation ...