The present study aims to investigate the relative effectiveness of different types of pragmatic instruction including two collaborative translation tasks and two structured input tasks with and without explicit pragmatic instruction on the production of apologetic utterances by low-intermediate EFL learners. One hundred and fifty university students in four experimental groups and one control ...

Information Systems Actability Theory is a theory based on language action theories (e.g. Searle and Habermas) and other social action theories (e.g. Weber and Schutz). In ISAT, different actors’ work with (computerised) information systems is considered to be action directed towards humans. Phenomena related to human action and communication between humans are set in focus. This paper proposes...

In the last decades knowledge in business organizations has gained increasing attention, a development due to the insight that knowledge has a major impact on the competitiveness of companies. Research on organizational knowledge has since been dominated by essentially two concepts: learning organization and knowledge management. We view the latter as a complement to the former, regarding knowl...