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Teaching Pragmatic Competence: A Journey from Teaching Cultural Facts to Teaching Cultural Awareness
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Lenchuk, Iryna; Ahmed, Amer – TESL Canada Journal, 2013
Pragmatic competence is one of the essential competences taught in the second language classroom. The Canadian Language Benchmarks (CCLB, 2012a), the standard document referred to in any federally funded program of ESL teaching in Canada, acknowledges the importance of this competence, yet at the same time notes the limited resources available to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics