Learning How to Request in an instructed Language Learning Context (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication)

ISBN 10: 3039116010 / ISBN 13: 9783039116010

Published by Peter Lang, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning How to Request in an instructed Language Learning Context (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3039116010
• ISBN 13: 9783039116010
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP) is a field of growing interest. Focussing on the speech act of requesting, the volume provides information about opportunities for pragmatic learning and how pragmatics can be integrated into instructional foreign language learning contexts. In addition, the research reported here provides methodological insights for those interested in investigating ILP from a second language acquisition perspective. The reader will also encounter some research issues worth examining in relation to pragmatic language learning.
Topics include the use of assessment instruments in measuring learners’ perception and production of different pragmatic issues, the long-term effects of instruction, and the effectiveness of different teaching approaches.

About the Author

The Editor: Eva Alcón Soler, senior lecturer at the University Jaume I, Spain, has been working on discourse and language learning since 1993. Her research focuses on interlanguage pragmatics, lingua franca communication, interaction and second language acquisition. Her publications include Intercultural language use and language learning (with M. Pilar Safont), Investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts (with Alicia Martínez Flor). She was guest editor of several special journal issues.