abstract genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. the present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on iranian pre-intermediate efl leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their re...

Pragmatics is one of the branches linguistics which includes relationship between outside language and intent an utterance, while pragmatics itself a study that studies use associated with context in it used. The meaning can be understood if known. This focuses on branch pragmatics, namely Arabic directive speech acts animation "The Story Imam Hasan Al-Bashri ''. serves to explain describe form...

This study investigated how speech recognition in noise is affected by language proficiency for individual non-native speakers. The recognition of English and Chinese sentences was measured as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in sixty native Chinese speakers who never lived in an English-speaking environment. The recognition score for speech in quiet (which varied from 15%-92%) was...

Communicative competence has been the goal teaching of a second or foreign language. In acquiring language, speakers language also acquire rules knowledge and choose speech acts when communicating with others. This study aimed to investigate act request strategies perspectives produced by student The International Institute Tourism Business Denpasar. There are fifty students’ involved in interm...

This paper reports on a preliminary study on second language (L2) learners’ interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) development in academic written discourse by examining how epistemic modality is used by non-native speaker (NNS) writers compared with NS writers in both native speaker (NS) and NNS corpus data. This study also investigates how NNS writers gradually develop interlanguage pragmatic competen...

Prosody and Speaker State: Paralinguistics, Pragmatics, and Proficiency

This paper introduces instructional techniques on the speech act of giving and responding to compliments for intermediate learners in a second language context in the U.S. The instruction utilized relevant research literature and included awareness-raising activities where learners compared their L1 complimenting behavior. The instruction also facilitated learners' outside-of-class observation ...

Prosody has been demonstrated to be a key component in second language acquisition and assessment. This study analyzes raters’ ability to distinguish different levels of L1 and L2 prosody when listening to filtered speech. The goal of this study is to investigate how many levels of prosodic proficiency can be made when it is isolated in a filtered speech condition. An experiment was conducted w...