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Pragmatic Comprehension of High and Low Level Language Learners

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Garcia, Paula – TESL-EJ, 2004

This study compares the performances of 16 advanced and 19 beginning English language learners on a listening comprehension task that focused on linguistic and pragmatic processing. Processing pragmatic meaning differs from processing linguistic meaning because pragmatic meaning requires the listener to understand not only linguistic information,…

Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation