Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) has witnessed a growing body of research in the past two decades. One of the under-explored domains of L2 pragmatics is the role of learning strategies specifically tailored for the development of ILP knowledge. Therefore, this investigation aimed to determine the significant interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) used by high vs. low L2 pragmatic achi...

Secondary students must master not only grammar and text organization, but also pragmatic competence in the target language order to achieve communication competence. The ability express meaning beyond rules is referred as Teachers should provide materials that are appropriate for both learning goals needs of students. This study aimed determine types textbooks teachers require. It was a mixed-...

This study aims to investigate the access and use of social networks by students majoring in English Studies with a high-quality program developing pragmatic competence. The quantitative research was carried out at Can Tho University (CTU), one most prestigious universities Mekong Delta, Vietnam. participants were 90 English-majored Department (courses 44 47) who studied Pragmatics. questionnai...

This study investigated the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of requests by college-level English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Taiwan. The goal was to determine first whether the use of explicit pragmatic instruction had a positive effect on EFL learners’ pragmatic competence. Second, the relative effectiveness of presenting pragmatics through two deli...

1. Introduction. Constructions and Pragmatics What do constructional approaches to grammar have to contribute to linguistic pragmatics? A careful answer to this question would require prior specification of which approaches should properly be called 'constructional' and also what exactly is intended by 'linguistic pragmatics'. Conscientiously discharging these preparatory obligations could requ...

The paper glosses the pragmatic inference of presupposition in a way different from what has been mentioned elsewhere in the previous researches. All researches conducted on this inference viewed it as an internally linguistic system. To have figured it that way, the writer of This paper thinks that is the main reason which made a linguist like Levinson(1983) to consider it as partially underst...

The current era of globalization and emergence English as an international language (EIL) has brought about new opportunities for L2 pragmatic learning teaching. common view approximation to native-likeness is changing towards conceiving ability a tool interact with people different cultural linguistic backgrounds, the majority whom are non-native speakers (NNSs) English. While such reality wid...