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Instructional Effects on L2 Pragmatic Comprehension: The Case of Indirect Refusals and Indirect Opinions
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Thuy Nguyen, Minh Thi; Pham, Thuy Thi Thanh – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The current study examines the role of instruction in developing L2 learners' ability to comprehend two types of implicatures: indirect refusals and indirect opinions. According to Taguchi (2005), these implicatures differ in the degrees of conventionality involved in producing them, hence requiring different degrees of processing effort on the…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Using Conversation Tasks and Retrospective Methodology to Investigate L2 Pragmatics Development: The Case of EFL Criticisms and Responses to Criticisms
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Nguyen, Minh Thi Thuy – Language Learning Journal, 2017
Data collection methods constitute a major area of concern in interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) research, since there is no easy way to collect the type of data that is relatively 'naturalistic' while at the same time allowing for researcher control. Further, current ILP research also suffers from the shortage of studies making use of self-report…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics