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The Effect of Instruction on Learners' Pragmatic Awareness: A Focus on Refusals
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Soler, Eva Alcon; Pitarch, Josep Guzman – International Journal of English Studies, 2010
The benefits of instruction on learners' production and awareness of speech acts is well documented (see Alcon and Martinez-Flor, 2008, for a review of pragmatics in instructional contexts). However, few studies examine the influence that instruction may have on the cognitive processes involved in speech act production (Felix-Brasdefer, 2008). In…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Cognitive Processes, Second Language Instruction