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Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing
. Ed(S): Soler, Eva Alcon (Universitat Jaume I); Martinez-Flor, Alicia (Universitat Jaume I)
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Paperback. The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. It brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings and focuses on different foreign languages. Editor(s): Soler, Eva Alcon (Universitat Jaume I); Martinez-Flor, Alicia (Universitat Jaume I). Series: Second Language Acquisition. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFDC; CJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings. The number and variety of languages involved both as the first language (e.g. English, Finnish, Iranian, Spanish, Japanese) as well as the target foreign language (e.g. English, French, German, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish) makes the volume specially attractive for language educators in different sociocultural foreign language contexts. Additionally, the different approaches adopted by the researchers participating in this volume, such as information processing, sociocultural, language socialization, computer-mediated or conversation analysis should ... Read morebe of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.
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Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
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Second Language Acquisition
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About . Ed(S): Soler, Eva Alcon (Universitat Jaume I); Martinez-Flor, Alicia (Universitat Jaume I)
Eva Alcón Soler, senior lecturer at University Jaume I, has been working on discourse and language learning since 1993. Her research has covered, among others, interlanguage pragmatics, lingua franca communication, interaction and second language acquisition. Her recent publications have focussed on intercultural language use and language learning and on learning pragmatics in foreign language contexts. Alicia Martínez-Flor ... Read moreis a lecturer in the Department of English Studies, Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, Spain, where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in EFL teaching methodology. As a result of her own learning process of the English language, she became interested in investigating the acquisition of pragmatic competence in foreign language contexts. Her research interests include second language acquisition and interlanguage pragmatics. Show Less
Reviews for Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing
This book is a rich source of knowledge and inspiration for beginner and more advanced researchers, contributes to the development of the multilingual field of interlanguage pragmatics and provides valuable pedagogical implications for language teachers in the foreign language classroom.
Anna Niżegorodcew, Professor in Applied Linguistics, English Department, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Adopting a range of theoretical perspectives and ... Read morefocusing on a variety of learning contexts and approaches to learning, this timely collection of articles represents a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on the teaching of pragmatics in the foreign language context. It is essential reading for interlanguage pragmaticists.
Dr. Anne Barron, Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie, Universität Bonn, Germany. This volume is a timely contribution to ILP research. It provides an overview of recent research in the field of ILP. It takes into consideration the wide variety of approaches currently being used in classroom-based ILP research. The employment of both observational, as well as more experimental methods provides a holistic picture of the current state of research in ILP.
Iris Levitis, University of California, Davis
Linguist List 20.1944
This timely work represents a significant contribution to the literature, as it integrates research on pragmatics in foreign language learning, teaching and testing. This volume is highly recommended for students and researchers in applied linguistics as well as language teachers and educators.
Wei Ren, University of Bristol
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 31:4, 2009
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