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The Role of Refusal Instruction in Pragmatic Development
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Farrokhi, Farahman; Atashian, Soheil – World Journal of Education, 2012
This study was set up to further investigate whether either of the instruction types, explicit vs. implicit, proves more efficient in ameliorating pragmatic performance of Iranian EFL learners. The speech act under investigation in this quasi-experimental study was refusal. Sixty Iranian learners of English as a foreign language participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Direct Instruction